Passing Arguments to checkcommand in hosts.cfg

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

On 9/22/2006 7:58 AM, jay alvarez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use check_cisco_ping for some hosts and
> aside from the $HOSTADDRESS$ it requires the mpls
> label. Passing an argument to the check_command using
> !ARGn! notation doesn't work. I think it has something
> to do with the ARG definition in the manual: "The nth
> argument passed to the service check command. Nagios
> supports up to 32 argument macros ($ARG1$ through
> $ARG32$)." 
> 
> Arguments are only passed to service checks and not to
> host checks. 

If that's the case you could always either hard-code the necessary 
arguments in the check command - thereby possibly creating a large 
number of similar host check commands - or using a wrapper script around 
the actual check command. You could set up any additional arguments 
depending on the host name or address, for example.

>There is no service associated with the
> said hosts.

That's a misconfiguration then :-)
Hosts are only checked when they have a service problem. So: No services 
means no host checks.

> And I think it is not a good idea to just
> rely on service checks result for those hosts such
> that hosts can assumed to be up or down because the
> host checking method will just be a waste to the
> machine's resource given a huge number of hosts to be
> checked but the host check commands arent working.

But why not simply add a service check doing what you now want to put 
into the host check? You could even simplify the host check to something 
like 'check_dummy 1 "Unknown switch state"' if you want to...

> Any idea how to handle this? 

Yup, many ;-)

Arno

> Thanks!
> 
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