passing command line parameters to plugins

[Arno Lehmann]

Hello,

Cam wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use the check_http plugin to check a webserver running
> on an unusual port number.  the syntax at the command line is
> check_http -p <foo> <host>.  to get it working in my services.cfg, i
> just use the literal command-line approach w/ the check_command (e.g.,
> check_command "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -p 2584 aspapp1". 
> It seems like the "standard" way is to use the
> "check_http!commandargs" approach, but i'm not sure how that's
> supposed to work w/ the '-p', i've tried "check_http!-p!2584" (w/out
> the quotes), but that doesn't work... what's the syntax for that?

Well, it's documented in the manual and the examples. Basically, you can 
put any macro into in command definition, and $ARG1$ .. $ARGn$ are the 
arguments you give to command in the host or service definition.

So, for example $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTNAME$ $ARG2$ could be a 
command line definition, that you could use like check_http!-p 2584 from 
a service check.

More details in the distributed docs...

Arno
> Thanks,
> Cameron Matheson
> 
> 
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