selectively disable notifications for services inheriting a specific template?

[Assaf Flatto]

Have you looked at service dependencies ?
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/dependencies.html

It sounds like this is what you need.

Assaf


On Thursday 22 January 2009 02:21:55 Owen LaGarde wrote:
> 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?



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