Advances servicedependency configuration

[Paul Fitzpatrick]

I agree (if I understand your request correctly) that it would be
*extremely* useful to have a config directive that effectively allows you to
say, 'in hostgroupX make serviceY depend on serviceZ on the individual host
itself'  as opposed to making it dependent on serviceZ on all the other
hosts of hostgroupX.

I have a script I run prior to running a config check that expands the host
member list of hostgroups with service dependencies and then populates the
servicedependency definition with the relevant hostnames, but it's a hack
with obvious drawbacks.

An ex colleague of mine wrote a patch for v2.0 that defined a 'SELF'
directive that enabled defining servicedependencies as I described.
Unfortunately I am not a C programmer, so I wasn't able to duplicate it for
v3, so I wrote the perl script.

I hope the enhancement will be considered

Paul

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Michael Maymann <michael at maymann.org>wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> Is there a way to solve my problem with the following servicedependency
> config:
> http://forums.meulie.net/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=4606
>
>
> ---
> I'm using Nagios 3.0.6 with nrpe.
> I'm about to setup NRPE service dependencies and would like to know the
> best way to do this.
>
> for a test i have configured the below and it works great, and i could
> "just" make these servicedependencies for every host.
> # NRPE dependencies
> define servicedependency{
> host_name host1
> # hostgroup_name hostgroup1
> service_description NRPE
> dependent_host_name host1
> # dependent_host_name $HOSTNAME$
> dependent_service_description Current Users,Free Space,HW info,Health,High
> CPU Load,Log file,NFS client stats,NTP stratum,Pdflush Processes,RAID,Swap
> Space,Temps,Zombie Processes
> execution_failure_criteria w,u,c,p
> notification_failure_criteria w,u,c,p
> }
>
> My only problem is that we have ---A LOT--- of hosts so this is not an
> option [image: :-)]
> I am aware of the -u option to check_nrpe but a combination of only running
> some checks once every day and automated powermanagement makes this no
> option either.
> It would be nice if i somehow could get the functionality of the commented
> lines:
> # hostgroup_name hostgroup1
> # dependent_host_name $HOSTNAME$
> so for each host in hostgroup1 all the "dependent_service_ descriptions"
> services are dependent on NRPE in this specific host.
> so if "hostgroup1" contains host1 and host2, "Current Users" on host1 will
> be dependent on NRPE on host1 but not dependent on NRPE on host2...
>
> Is there a way to do this or do i need to make a hack and/or put an entry
> in the wishlist ?
> ---
>
>
> Thanks in advance
> ~Maymann
>
>
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