Almost there please assist...

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Wed Apr 13 23:18:21 CEST 2005


On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Calvin Crutchfield wrote:

> OK.  Took me 2.5 days but I have NAGIOS and the interface running.  What I'm
> trying to do is to get a simple localhost ping working..  I have read plenty
> but not quite putting 2 and 2 together yet.
> 
> Solaris 9
> Latest Nagios and plugins
> 
> Assumptions.
> 
> *Commands can only be defined once amongst your included config files
> 
> I created a hosts.cfg file containing:
> 
> define host{
>         host_name                       nagios_server
>         alias                           nagios server
>         address                         localhost
>         check_command                   check_myhost
>         max_check_attempts              5
>         process_perf_data               0
>         retain_nonstatus_information    0
>         contact_groups                  router-admins
>         notification_interval           30
>         notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            d,u,r
>         }
> 
> 
> I have a test command definition in the same file like such:
> 
> define command{
>         command_name    check_myhost
>         command_line    /space/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H 127.0.0.1 -w
> 200,20% -c 300,30% -p 5
>         }
> 
> Questions:
> 
> Should this work?

yes it should


> If I were to use the $ARGn$ method of definition where do the args go?  The
> way I understand it, the args would go under the host definition on the
> ccheckl_command line like this:
>     check_command   check_myhost  arg1 arg2
> 

more like this:
define command{
         command_name    check_myhost
         command_line    /space/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H 127.0.0.1 -w 
                        $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p $ARG3$
         }
 
check_command  check_myhost!200,20%!300,30%!5


-- 
-sg



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