warning/critical directives

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Wed Feb 16 10:21:24 CET 2005


Gerd Mueller wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> a few days ago I had to mail one of our costumers there warning critical
> values for all his services. That was a really boring job :-(. 
> 
> For such future tasks it would be very helpful if there could be two
> optional directives "warning" and "critical". Both should be:
> - used be readable by macros ("$WARNING$","$CRITICAL$") to easily
> configure the commands
> - stored inside the object cache
> - columns inside the configuration report through the webinterface.
> 
> an example:
> 
> define service {
>   use generic-service
>   host_name foo
>   service_description smtp
>   check_command check_smtp
>   warning 10
>   critical 15
> }
> 

I foresee a huge amount of moronic questions regarding this from users 
who have added the options and removed their command arguments expecting 
it to work. Other than that, it's a neat feature.

> define command {
>   command_name  check_smtp
>   command_line  $USER1$/check_smtp $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $WARNING$ -c
> $CRITICAL$
> }
> 
> 
> OK, that won't improve nagios functional ;-) but it won't be so much
> work to document then. 
> 

You could easily hack up some sort of script for this. I'm thinking 
grep+sed, or possibly something perl-related.

> Any comments? Any volunteers for coding?
> 
> Chers,
> 
> Gerd
>  
> 
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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