Service checks

Jerad Riggin jriggin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 17:39:12 CET 2007


I wish I could, but I'm not a programmer and have limited experience with
Linux.  I usually just manage Windows servers.

Thanks for your help though.  I condensed the string check into one instead
of double/triple templating.  Thanks.

On 11/2/07, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I've just tried this, using the standard check_http plugin you are
> using. It appears not.
>
> As soon as one string is not found it goes critical.
>
> You could always write a custom plugin to test your websites, or much
> more easily a shell wrapper plugin to call the first, if it fails, call
> the second, and only if that fails go critical... not perfect though, a
> better/custom plugin would serve you better.
>
> -h
>
> Hari Sekhon
>
>
>
> Jerad Riggin wrote:
> > In that case, is there a way to specify more than one possible string,
> > so that for example if it can't find "Home", but it can find
> > "Checkout",  it considers the host up?
> >
> > On 11/2/07, *Hari Sekhon* <hpsekhon at googlemail.com
> > <mailto:hpsekhon at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     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>
> >     > <mailto: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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