selectively disable notifications for services inheriting a specific template?

[Owen LaGarde]

I essentially want to disable only notifications, only when a specific
service check fails, only for services inheriting a specific template.
And I'm lazy, and don't want to double the size of my config for this
one function.

I'm using nagios 3.0.2 and nagios-plugins 1.4.12 with a large (>1000
hosts/services) configuration.  Most (800+) of the services use a
"check_remote" custom plugin to tunnel network calls [ie., to plugins on
other hosts] within kerberos authenticated and encrypted sessions.  That
kerberos activity requires a ticket cache containing a TGT;  said cache
is maintained by a custom event broker module and said TGT's presence is
monitored by a service definition referencing a custom check_krbtgt
plugin.  This has worked great so far -- no race conditions, clean
start/restart/refresh cycles for the cache and TGT, scales well, etc.
For a number of policy reasons all service definitions use active
checks.  When the TGT check fails it logically follows that all service
checks using the check_remote plugin have or are about to fail.  This is
desirable behavior -- depending on the nature of the kerberos TGT
problem there are a number of check_remote failure messages and these
need to be captured in the event log, so I *don't* want to block *any*
checks from running.

But...

If it's the TGT check that's failed then the notifications for
everything except the TGT failure are inappropriate and should be
blocked.  In effect I want to cause a specific service check's failure
to disable notifications for a large (800+) number of other service
checks but I don't want to nearly double the size of the config tree and
have that much more text to wade through when maintaining the nagios
configuration.  Remember, I need the checks that are about to fail
because of the TGT failure to go on and run, and fail, and log their
events and perfdata.  It's just the notifications that should be
stopped, and only then if the originating service "use"-es the
remote-active-service template.

Anybody else doing this?


-- 
Sincerely,

    Owen LaGarde
    Senior Systems Administrator
    Owen.M.LaGarde at usace.army.mil
    1-800-522-6937 x4879

Engineering Research and Development Center
attn: CEERD-IH-C (Owen LaGarde)
3909 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199

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