Service checks
Hari Sekhon
hpsekhon at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 2 16:52:00 CET 2007
yes you have to use a separate one for each site, how else would you be
able to use a separate check? Unless you expect the word "Home" on each
site and that is your string check. Another option is using Macros but I
suspect this may not do what you want...
-h
Hari Sekhon
Jerad Riggin wrote:
> I've read the help docs, like I said I have a working installation
> checking about 15 servers. I have a PING service that pings a host
> group. I can't do that with this because I'm checking a different
> string on each site, so i'm guessing it has to be separated out. Does
> this make sense?
>
> On 11/2/07, *Hari Sekhon* <hpsekhon at googlemail.com
> <mailto:hpsekhon at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
> You need to reread the docs, this is the most basic of questions.
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#service
>
> Hint: You are missing a service_description in the last block for one.
> You should not have name in that last block either, you need
> host_name.
>
> Read docs pls.
>
> -h
>
> Hari Sekhon
>
>
>
> Jerad Riggin wrote:
> > I have a functioning nagios setup but I have a quick question. I am
> > going through and adding website string checks so we can keep
> track of
> > availability on one of our webservers.
> >
> > So in services.cfg I have
> >
> > define service{
> > name generic-service ; Generic
> > service name
> > active_checks_enabled 1 ; Active
> > service checks are enabled
> > passive_checks_enabled 1 ; Passive
> > service checks are enabled/accepted
> > parallelize_check 1 ; Active
> > service checks should be parallelized (Don't disable)
> > obsess_over_service 1 ; We should
> > obsess over this service (if necessary)
> > check_freshness 0 ;
> Default is
> > to NOT check service 'freshness'
> > notifications_enabled 1 ; Service
> > notifications are enabled
> > event_handler_enabled 1 ; Service
> > event handler is enabled
> > flap_detection_enabled 1 ; Flap
> > detection is enabled
> > process_perf_data 1 ; Process
> > performance data
> > retain_status_information 1 ; Retain
> > status information across program restarts
> > retain_nonstatus_information 1 ; Retain
> > non-status information across program restarts
> > register 0 ; DONT
> > REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
> > }
> >
> > define service{
> > use generic-service
> > name basic-service
> > is_volatile 0
> > check_period 24x7
> > max_check_attempts 5
> > normal_check_interval 3
> > retry_check_interval 1
> > notification_interval 15
> > notification_period 24x7
> > register 0
> > }
> >
> > I then have as just one example:
> >
> > define service{
> > use basic-service
> > name check-site4
> > notification_options w,u,c,r
> > check_command
> check_http!site.com!20!"Home"
> > register 0
> > }
> >
> >
> > My question is, you notice that I have the name as check-site4, and
> > then later on in the services.cfg I call up that
> checksite-4. Is this
> > the correct way? Do I need to define a service for each host
> and then
> > later on call it by name to execute the service check? Is this
> a bad
> > way of going about it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jerad
> >
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