Fw: [Nagios-users] Automatically generating multiple service definitions

[Sam Stickland]

Forwarding this to the developers list as I had on response on -users, and
it's possibly more appropiate here?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Stickland" <sam_ml at spacething.org>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: [Nagios-users] Automatically generating multiple service
definitions


> Hi,
>
> I'd like to be able generate service definations from an external program
> when nagios starts and also while it is running.
>
> For example, I have an external program that creates SMPP connections to
> other servers on demamd. Currently I have a nagios plugin that contacts
the
> external program and checks that all the SMPP connections that it is using
> are bound correctly.
>
> But it exists only as a single service. This causes problems if one
> connection drops, and then another some time afterwards. The service will
go
> into the critical state on the first drop, so the second one doesn't issue
> an alert. Also, as a single service there's only one location for
comments,
> scheduled downtime, disabling of notifications etc.
>
> I'd like to be able to write an external program that regulary scans for
how
> many connections there are, and inserts and removes service definations as
> appropiate.
>
> This would be useful for a variety of other services, eg. BGP session
state,
> switch port status etc.
>
> How should I go about this? The solution that comes to mind is a
> cron-scheduled script that checks the number of services, compares it to
> previous state and if it's changed, regenerates a configuration file and
> issues a "nagios reload".
>
> It seems like a fairly generic solution should be possible. Does this
> already exist? Would there be interest in it if I wrote one?
>
> Sam
>
>
>
>
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