exposing host/service check state to plugins ?

[Hendrik B?äcker]

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Guillaume Rousse schrieb:
> Hello list.
> 
> I'm curious if there is a way, from a check plugin to get the current 
> state of another host/service check in some way? It would allow easy 
> implementation of boolean logic between checks, such as 'is there at 
> least one auth backend available ?', or 'are all my gateways OK ?', 
> without using nasty tricks such as digging into nagios log, or 
> performing the test twice...
> 
Would would you think about using On-Demand Macros as argument passed to
your plugin?

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/macros.html

You could build s.th. like this:
define service{
...
command_line check_horse
$SERVICESTATEID:<some_nagios_host>:<some_nagios_srv>$
...
}


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