New Nagios external commands for downtime deletion

[Jochen Bern]

On 03/24/2011 05:48 PM, Ton Voon wrote:
> the current mechanism of deletion by id number doesn't work in a
> distributed environment.

FWIW, and taking a rather theoretical/long-term stance, coordination
between different Nagios instances is hampered by the fact that there's
no core interface genuinely supporting it:
-- The command file is unidirectional.
-- OC*P covers only a very limited set of topics.
-- The NEB modules API doesn't do remote comm. (Several popular actual
   modules filled that gap, though.)
And once a comm channel is available, globally unique IDs (from downtime
IDs to hostnames to whatever) and their relations (as in, is "Foobar
Database Connector" the *same* host for all communicating Nagiosses?
What about host "Nagios"?) would likely be the next issue.

> Where is the documentation to go for new external commands? Google
> says here:
> http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php
> but it is broken, and the domain is old.nagios.org

Looking up the core documentation from www.nagios.org leads to
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/extcommands.html,
which links to http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/,
which redirects to the URL you found. Broken or not, it is *officially*
so. ;-)

Kind regards,
								J. Bern
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