per host custom macros

[Ben O'Hara]

Create check called check_dns_cache in checkcommands.cfg calling check_dns
or whatever you are using and use $ARG1$ as a macro thats passed to it.

In services.cfg you define the check as

check_command    check_dns_cache!1.2.3.4

where 1.2.3.4 is the IP you want to be passed to $ARG1$

Least thats how ive set it up.

Ben

On 3/29/06, David Mansfield <nagios at dm.cobite.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm somewhat of a new to nagios (coming from a mon environment) and I'm
> using nagios 2.0 on Centos 4, using RPMs from DAG.
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to define 'custom macros' that can be
> defined per host.
>
> For example, we have the $HOSTADDRESS$ macro which can be referenced in
> the 'command' definition, but what if I have some other attribute I'd
> like to specify that's not part of the 'host' object by default.
>
> In particular, our DNS caches run on their own IP address (interface)
> different from the rest of the services on the boxes.  I don't want to
> define new hosts for this because that would be ugly, mistake prone,
> confusing in the HTTP UI etc.  Instead I'd like to define a new check
> command called check_dnscache which uses $DNSCACHEADDRESS$ instead of
> $HOSTADDRESS$ in it's command line.
>
> Can anyone make a suggestion on how to do this?
>
> David
>
>
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