service templates

[Deborah Martin]

They are available as part of the standard config. I've used them since
2005.

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From: Aaron M. Segura [mailto:aaron.segura at cabelas.com]
Sent: 06 May 2008 15:34
To: Terry
Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] service templates


What you're talking about sounds like Service Profiles, which, I
believe, are not available via regular nagios configs, but rather via a
third party GUI configuration tool like Monarch (amongst others,
probably).

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:30 -0500, Terry wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  I do this already.  This just cuts down on the
> number of lines in a service check.  It doesn't allow me to glob a set
> of services into a single service or host definition though, which is
> what I want (i think).
> 
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Deborah Martin
> <Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com> wrote:
> > Terry,
> >  You can do exactly that :
> >
> >  In the main services.cfg, define your template
> >
> >  define service{
> >         name                    my-service ; The 'name' of this service
> >  template, referenced in other service definitions
> >         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 (disabling this can lead to major performance
> >  problems)
> >         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 - ITS NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
> >         }
> >
> >  You need to change / add whatever else you want in there.
> >
> >  Then for the service definition specific to a host :
> >
> >  define service{
> >         use                     my-service   ; this will load the
service
> >  template my-service
> >         host_name               yourhostname
> >         service_description     yourdescription
> >         contact_groups          yourcontactgroups
> >         servicegroups           yourservicegroups
> >         max_check_attempts      1
> >         normal_check_interval   5
> >         retry_check_interval    1
> >         notifications_enabled   1       ; Service notifications are
enabled
> >         notification_interval   240
> >         notification_period     24x7
> >         notification_options    c,r       ; Notifications are sent out
on
> >  CRITICAL or RECOVERY
> >         check_period            24x7
> >         check_command           check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
> >         }
> >
> >  You can do lots of stuff with this. I use the above for checking
databases,
> >  but each database is slightly different
> >  so I use a template for the base, then define only the differences in
the
> >  individual service definitions. Also,
> >  if you define the check_command in the template, but want to change the
> >  check_command slightly like the parameters passed to it, anything you
put in
> >  the service definition overrides the template definition. Very useful
if you
> >  want to test a plugin on a live system but don't want to change for
> >  everything until you're happy with it.
> >
> >  Hope that helps.
> >
> >  regards,
> >  deborah
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: Terry [mailto:td3201 at gmail.com]
> >  Sent: 06 May 2008 15:11
> >  To: Nagios Users mailinglist
> >  Subject: [Nagios-users] service templates
> >
> >
> >  I am figuring this is pretty obvious but the coffee hasn't kicked in
> >  yet or something.  I want to set up service templates of some sorts.
> >  I see there are service groups but this isn't it exactly because you
> >  have to define the host with each service.   For example, a template
> >  would contain all of our base windows service that we monitor and then
> >  one of our level 1 or 2 guys can go in and 'use windows-base' to
> >  simply include that set of services for a host.   I hope this makes
> >  sense.
> >
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