obsess_over_service in services.cfg

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jay Nakamura
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:30 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] obsess_over_service in services.cfg
> 
> 
> What does the obsess_over_service option in service configuration do?

I don't know what happened to it in the 1.x doccos, but from 2.x (which
is still the same) --

This directive determines whether or not checks for the service will be
"obsessed" over using the ocsp_command.


> 
> I want to be able to send service check result to another server but
> only for select few services.
> 
> I have tried setting
> 
> obsess_over_services = 1
> 
> in main config, then
> 
> define service {
> 	<snip>
> 	obsess_over_service 0
> 	</snip>
> }
> 
> in services.cfg for all the services that I don't want sent to main
> server.

That should do what you want.
 
> This still results in all services sent to the main server.

Did you previously have it set to 1 for all services?
 
> If I do the reverse and set
> 
> obsess_over_services = 0
> 
> in main config, then set obsess_over_service in service.cfg to 1 for
> those I want to send but 0 for ones I don't want to send, nothing gets
> sent.

Expected.

> Is this suppose to work like I want to? 

Yes.

> I didn't find any comment in the documentation for obsess_over_service
> in services.cfg
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.

It sounds like you may have retain_state_information enabled. If you do,
and previously had obsess_over_service set to 1 then the values in the
retention file will take precedence over the values in the config. See
the retention notes at
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html if that scenario
fits. 

--
Marc


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