<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hi,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Is there anyway in Nagios to define services at runtime? I’ll give an example:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> You have a script that monitors ports on a switch for errors. When its run it walks the interface error counters on the switch. For each port it discovers it creates a new service entry (for this host/switch) - if one does not already exist – and then sets the state accordingly.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> It would be nice if this was possible. I realise that this could be achieved by walking the switches and then generating a static configuration, but I feel this method is cleaner. It combines automatic, runtime discovery of switchports, along with the efficiently gains of having only one service check ran (instead of one service check per-port). I can envisage a single plug-in, which only needs to be given a hostname and community string to able to generate individual reports for each switchport for errors, queuedrops and port status.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Is this possible with the new Event Broker API? Is this documented anywhere? ;)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> S<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>