Important check_command functionality

[eponymous alias]

You may want the functionality you describe,
but is this really the right way to implement
it?  Hacking the value like this means that
configuration-management code that processes
such stuff has to get decorated with a lot of
special-case handling.  Would it not be better
to add a separate directive to specify this
quality?

Besides, I hate to see ! used this way.  In
most computer contexts, it means NOT.  Using
an exactly opposite meaning contributes to
the general rot of culture.  (Yes, I know
the CSS folks have already foisted this
corruption on us.  Let's not give them any
approbation for that.)

--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Ton Voon <ton.voon at opsera.com> wrote:

> From: Ton Voon <ton.voon at opsera.com>
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] Important check_command functionality
> To: "Nagios Developers List" <nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 3:43 PM
> Hi!,
> 
> One neat trick that we've done in Opsview for configuring
> in a distributed environment is an "important check
> command".
> 
> The documentation change says:
> 
> ---
> 
> Service templates can make use of a special rule which
> gives precedence to their check_command value. If the
> check_command is prefixed with an exclamation mark (!), then
> the template's check_command is marked as important and will
> be used over the check_command defined for the service.
> 
> Why is this useful? Mainly when setting a different
> check_command for distributed systems. You may want to set a
> freshness threshold and a check_command that forces the
> service into a failed state, but this doesn't work with the
> normal templating system. Using this
> <i>important</i> flag allows the custom
> check_command to be written, but a general distributed
> template can be used to overrule the check_command when used
> on a central Nagios server.
> 
> For instance:
> 
> # On master
> define host{
>        name     
>              
> service-distributed
>        register   
>             0
>    
>    active_checks_enabled   0
>        check_freshness 
>        1
>        check_command   
>        !set_to_stale
>        }
> 
> # On slave
> define host{
>        name     
>              
> service-distributed
>        register   
>             0
>    
>    active_checks_enabled   1
>        }
> 
> # Server configuration, used by master and slave
> define host{
>        host_name   
>            host1
>        check_command   
>        check_http...
>        use     
>            
>    service-distributed
>        ...
>        }
> 
> ----
> 
> The patch is attached. Would this be desired in core
> Nagios?
> 
> Ton
> 
> 
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