Hostgroup tricks?
Frost, Mark {PBC}
mark.frost1 at pepsico.com
Tue Nov 8 16:37:13 CET 2011
From: Tim AtLee [mailto:T.AtLee at cfertech.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 9:46 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup tricks?
Hello
I have a hostgroup defined as:
define hostgroup {
hostgroup_name ping-servers
alias Pingable hosts
members *
}
I have recently added a host outside our firewall that has ping disabled. I have changed the host's check_command to be 'check_tcp!80' so that the host won't be offline permanently, but I am wondering if there is a way to exclude this host from the 'ping-servers' hostgroup in the host definition?
Ideally, something like:
define host {
host_name outsidefirewallhost
alias Host outside firewall
address some.ip.address
use generic-host
hostgroup !ping-servers
}
This generates an error when I test the configuration. The only way I have been able to achieve this is to change the ping-servers hostgroup definition to exclude this individual host (*,!outsidefirewallhost), but I'd rather keep the exclusion define in the host, not in the "blanket rule".
Maybe it's just me being OCD... but is this possible?
Thanks,
Tim
Tim,
I'm a little unclear about your question. Are you trying to alter the "Host Check Command" for a single host definition? That is, the method used by Nagios to determine if a host is up or not? If that's the case, you can just override the definition for that one host:
define host {
host_name outsidefirewallhost
alias Host outside firewall
address some.ip.address
check_command check-tcp-port-80
use generic-host
}
Check the docs for information on precedence, but your "generic-host" inclusion will specify a check_command (usually ping or better yet fping), but defining a different value in the definition itself can override that for the specific definition.
If that's not what you mean, and you want to change a specific service to check everything in that hostgroup except that one host, that would look something like
define service {
hostgroup_name ping-servers
host_name !outsidefirewallhost
service_description My Service
check_command run-a-ping
use generic-service
}
Hopefully I've understood your question...
Mark
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