Creating and installing Opspacks

Once you have created all kinds of host templates, service checks, and plugins, there might be times that you wish to copy them to another Opsview system or keep a backup.

Opspacks is a lesser known feature of Opsview. They are tarballs containing the following items (some of these will be discussed in the next chapter):

To create an Opspack, simply update your Opsview system with host templates, plugins, and so on. Then log in to your system using SSH and become the Nagios user (or log in as the Nagios user directly).

Running the following command will create a subdirectory in your current directory, which is named after the specified host template:

/usr/local/nagios/bin/create_opspack --username=admin --password=initial 'host template name'

On successful execution of the command, go to the new subdirectory and edit the info file if needed. The info file contains the version number, describes any dependencies, or tells you which version of Opsview is required.

Then, simply run the following command to create a tarball:

make mpack

You can now send the tarball to your other system and install it there using the following command:

/usr/local/nagios/bin/install_opspack tarball_name

As you can see, exporting and importing host templates (and their associated checks, attributes, and so on) is very easy and you can use this method to create Opspacks for any host template you have created.