Automatically create Items?

[marcel]

Hi All, does anyone have any experience with automatically adding/creating items for host? For example, I do have many different hosts having many different mount points, however I would like to monitor every individual mountpoint separately - is there a way to automatically create items (and triggers) without using API? Is anyone soing this? I believe there is an interface for this in Nagios called check_mk (or one of the projects from the same author)

Thank you,
Marcel

[chliu]

Maybe you can use template for your request.

[marcel]

No, templaet is not the way since you need to specifically define template items with static information, that is not good enough for me.

Marcel

[nelsonab]

Hi All, does anyone have any experience with automatically adding/creating items for host? For example, I do have many different hosts having many different mount points, however I would like to monitor every individual mountpoint separately - is there a way to automatically create items (and triggers) without using API? Is anyone soing this? I believe there is an interface for this in Nagios called check_mk (or one of the projects from the same author)

Thank you,
Marcel

Check out 1.8.4rc2, that might have some of what you are looking for. Alternatively you could set up a host macro and then change the macro values per host and use the macro in place where you need that variable. Otherwise the API is going to be about the only way to make it work.