Python for Configuration Management Database:

Step by step guide to building a configuration management database(CMDB) using python and django, CMDB is a repository of information related to all the components of an information system. Then we can use the post_hardwave_and_softwave_infos_to_cmdb.py script to get the hardwave & softwave info from host and post the info data to CMDB automatically.

How to Get the Django Sources and Install it:

https://www.djangoproject.com/download/

# tar xzvf Django-1.5.1.tar.gz

# cd Django-1.5.1

# python setup.py install

How to Start CMDB:

# cd pycmdb

# python manager runserver $host_ip:$port

How to Post the Data to CMDB:

# cd pycmdb

# python post_hardwave_and_softwave_infos_to_cmdb.py

Automatically got the Configuration of Nagios hosts and services:

# nagios_configure_generate.py

Automatic charting via NagiosGrapher:

# yum install nagios (nagios-3.4.4-1.fc16.x86_64) ...

How to start/stop Nagios service.

# /usr/bin/nagiostats -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg # /etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios start # /etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios restart # kill -HUP pidof nagios