Everything works! But I want more!

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ben Hyde wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2004, at 7:10 PM, Mark D. Nagel wrote:
> 
>> Daniel maher wrote:
>>
>>> I think that what he's looking for is a way to represent 
>>> non-monitorable (I'm inventing words now) objects in the 
>>> automatically generated network map.  This is a neat idea; for 
>>> example, I'd /love/ to be able to put a hub in that map, and have 
>>> things hang off of it visually, but since there's no way to 
>>> intelligently put such an object into the Nagios conf (that I'm aware 
>>> of), the map remains topologically inaccurate.
>>>
>>> To put it another way, I don't want to monitor the hub - I just want 
>>> to /see/ it placed accurately in the map. :)
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>> Ya mean, like this?
>>
>> define host {
>>    use                         generic-host
>>    check_command               check_ok
>>    max_check_attempts          1
>>    notification_interval       60
>>    notification_period         never
>>    notification_options        n
>>    host_name                   some-hub
>>    alias                       Some Unmanaged Hub
>>    address                     127.0.0.1
>>    parents                     parent-host
>> }
>>
>> The check_ok command is simply a call to 'check_dummy OK'.  You can 
>> then use this as a parent for whatever devices are behind it, but it 
>> itself will always appear up.
> 
> 
> That's only marginally different than what I was doing and I still get a 
> "Pending" label in my status map for my equivalent of some-hub.  I guess 
> my real question boils down to: "What is considered the 'right' way to 
> represent objects in my status map that can not be actively or passively 
> monitored."
> 
> Possibly the answer is the above and I should just learn to think of  
> the "Pending" label as denoting that no useful info is available for 
> this component.
> 

Indeed. If you really want some status for it you can always submit a 
passive check result through the web-interface.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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