Disable inherited checks?

[Chris Beattie]

Sorry for the top-posting: I'm stuck with Outlook.

Have you tried templates?  We have ~550 hosts and ~4500 services, and
it'd be a real pain to not use templates.

I have a host template definition for Windows servers, which adds
anything assigned that template to a windows_servers host group.  I have
a bunch of services defined which are assigned to everything in the
windows_servers host group.  When I add a new Windows host, I put "use
prod_windows_server" in the host definition, and the host is
automatically assigned service checks for CPU, C drive, E drive, memory,
page file, running antivirus, and a couple others.  I have a similar
setup for development servers, but we don't let them send notifications
outside of work hours.

For servers needing extra checks, I just add the extra service checks to
the hosts that need them.  For the servers which aren't standard for our
environment (some predate the standardization push and have a D: instead
of an E: drive, for example), I put a !hostname in the appropriate
service check definition.

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Edmunds [mailto:kae at midnighthax.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 11:19 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Disable inherited checks?

> You can disable inherited service checks for a host by putting an
> exclamation mark in front of the host name in the service definition.
> Look for "Excluding Hosts" in
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html.

Thanks Chris. The problem with that is that I need to list all hosts in
the service definition.

The problem I'm trying to solve is that we monitor around 70 nodes with
Nagios, and when we add a new monitor, we have to update all host files
and it's easy for some services to be missed on some nodes. To avoid
that,
I'd rather set things up so that all hosts monitor all services except
where specifically excluded. In other words, everything on by default
and
selectively turn off what is not needed; it seems that Nagios works by
having everything off by default and selectively turning things on. I
can,
of course, put "host_name *" in the service definition, but then I need
to
disable that service for some hosts. Hmm, thinking aloud, maybe I can do
"host_name *, !not_this_one, !or_this_one ...  I'll try that.

Thanks,
Keith

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