"distributable" downtime delete commands?

[Páll Guðjón Sigurðsson]

Thanks for the sed Andreas,

If anyone on the list is interested i compared include.common.h from nagios-3.4.4 with the documentation at  http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/ and discovered the following discrepancies:

External commands that are documented but not found in the source code:
DISABLE_SERVICE_FLAP_DETECTION
RESTART_PROGRAM
SHUTDOWN_PROGRAM


External commands that appear undocumented:
NONE
RESTART_PROCESS
SHUTDOWN_PROCESS
DELAY_HOST_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS
CANCEL_HOST_DOWNTIME
CANCEL_SVC_DOWNTIME
CANCEL_ACTIVE_HOST_DOWNTIME
CANCEL_PENDING_HOST_DOWNTIME
CANCEL_ACTIVE_SVC_DOWNTIME
CANCEL_PENDING_SVC_DOWNTIME
CANCEL_ACTIVE_HOST_SVC_DOWNTIME
CANCEL_PENDING_HOST_SVC_DOWNTIME
FLUSH_PENDING_COMMANDS
CHANGE_HOST_NOTIFICATION_TIMEPERIOD
DEL_DOWNTIME_BY_HOST_NAME
DEL_DOWNTIME_BY_HOSTGROUP_NAME
DEL_DOWNTIME_BY_START_TIME_COMMENT
CUSTOM_COMMAND

I totally agree with Andreas, that it would be nice if there was a handler that could print commands, short description, and in an utopian world, the documentation would be generated from that so there is no need to maintain it manually.


Cheers,
Palli

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Ericsson" <ae at op5.se>
To: "Nagios Users List" <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Páll Guðjón Sigurðsson" <palli at ok.is>, "Nagios Developers List" <nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 5:48:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] "distributable" downtime delete commands?

On 02/08/2013 04:32 AM, Páll Guðjón Sigurðsson wrote:
> Thanks a lot Paul,
> 
> We have been achieving the same goals with pynag scripts and
> DEL_SVC_DOWNTIME command.
> 
> Is there anyone on the list that might take it into their hands to
> keep documentation up to date, maybe even write a routine in nagios
> to ask for every supported external command, so that external scripts
> know what external commands are supported ?
> 

It wouldn't be hard to build a command query-handler in Nagios that
can list the available commands, along with a short description saying
what it does. The same could be used with macros and other things we
already have pre-compiled lists of.

I've been meaning to write one that can handle external commands from
users and reply with a result code to let people know how it actually
went parsing, understanding and applying it anyway, so it'll get done
eventually. Right now I'm working on something different though.

> The pynag team depends on the documentation to generate library
> functions, but we have found a few glitches in both external commands
> docs and the nagios.cfg docs. Anyone willing to help us on "getting
> it right" deserves a beer.
> 

Use the code instead. The external commands are all listed in
include/common.h, so

sed -n 's/^#define CMD_\([A-Z_]*\).*/\1/p'

will list all of them (although some of them are disabled internally,
so you'll have to keep a list of those).

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