Ansible Quick Start Guide

Use case 2 – setting up an NSclient Nagios client

We always introduce new equipment to a certain environment. One of the tasks that is required to set up a new host properly is to link it to the monitoring system. For this use case, we are going to show how to set up a Nagios agent in a Windows host and configure it from a sample configuration file:

---- name: Setup Nagios agent on Windows hosts  hosts: windows  gather_facts: yes  tasks:   - name: Copy the MSI file for the NSClient to the      windows host     win_copy:       src: ~/win_apps/NSCP-0.5.0.62-x64.msi       dest: C:\NSCP-0.5.0.62-x64.msi   - name: Install an NSClient with the appropriate      arguments     win_msi:       path: C:\NSCP-0.5.0.62-x64.msi extra_args: ADDLOCAL=FirewallConfig,LuaScript,DotNetPluginSupport,Documentation,CheckPlugins,NRPEPlugins,NSCPlugins,NSCAPlugin,PythonScript,ExtraClientPlugin,SampleScripts ...