External Command Ideas

[Jochen Bern]

Hello everyone,

in a current project, I have a need to override Nagios' check scheduling
on specific occasions (*). Hence, I'm looking at what I can or (relevant
point here) cannot do with external commands, as documented for 3.x.
Since there's a new major version upcoming, I thought I might toss a
couple thoughts this list's way, just in case you're taking suggestions ...

-- I can CHANGE_NORMAL_SVC_CHECK_INTERVAL to have a service checked
   as often as interval_length and/or the scheduler permits, but I
   cannot tell Nagios to return to whatever the config files had set
   initially.
-- I can SCHEDULE_* (or SCHEDULE_FORCED_*) single services or all
   services of a host, but not the members of a service group.
   (I guess that filtering for services in a non-OK state only is
   really a job for livestatus or the like, not Nagios.)
-- I cannot touch a service's ATTEMPT counter ~= SOFT/HARD distinction,
   to possibly have Nagios' scheduler go through the retry_interval
   routine for me, unless I PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT an
   all-out-fake OK state.
   (I guess that incrementing via CHANGE_MAX_SVC_CHECK_ATTEMPTS *might*
   have the side effect of returning the service to SOFT non-OK, but
   again, there's no "return to config file value" available.)

(*) Basically, I want all SLA relevant services that are still non-OK at
the end of the standard maintenance window to be rechecked so that the
non-OK state doesn't check_interval into the SLA relevant time more than
necessary. Note that I intend to use avail.cgi to produce reports on SLA
fulfilment, so I'll have to define a matching service group, anyway.
FWIW, it's a 3.4.4 installed from repos.

Kind regards,
								J. Bern
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