The reason of commands.cfg.

[Noel Platzke]

Say we have a bunch of servers that need multiple checks that do an HTTP GET
on different URIs and look for a specific string in the response. Isn't it
easier to maintain a single command that takes a few arguments than having
to constantly define a new command that does basically the same thing for
each service check? And if down the road someday HTTP becomes HTTPS you only
need to edit one configuration.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Albert Shih <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to known why (just the historic reason) in nagios we split the
> definition of the macros and the definition of a service ? For example :
>
> When we want to monitor a pop service we create
>
> define command {
>        command_name    check_pops
>        command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_spop -H $ARG1$
>        }
>
> and another
>
> define service {
>        host_name                       my_pop_server
>        use                             generic-service
>        service_description             POP
>        check_command                   check_pops!my_ip_of_pop_server
> }
>
> Why not in one ligne with something like
>
>
> define service {
>        host_name                       my_pop_server
>        use                             generic-service
>        service_description             POP
>        check_command                   /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_spop
> -H my_pop_server
> }
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
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