Arguments to check commands

[William Leibzon]

Don't use macros as arguments to commands at service definition. I
don't think this was ever documented in nagios 3 as beinf ok either
even if it worked. So try to see if this works:

define command {
        command_name    check_nrpe
        command_line    /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H
$HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$
        }

define service {
      ...
       check_command    check_nrpe!-c CheckEventLog -a
file=Application \"filter=generated gt -2d AND severity NOT IN
('success', 'informational')\" MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=10
}

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Ton Voon <ton.voon at opsview.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems like Nagios 4 has changed the way that check_command arguments are parsed. Overall, this looks like a good thing as I think it looks easier to understand as it seems to be much more similar to how the shell would evaluate a command. However, I'm worried about the migration of existing Nagios configurations.
>
> For instance, this worked in Nagios 3:
>
> ----
> define service {
>   ...
>   check_command           check_nrpe!-H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c CheckEventLog -a file=Application \"filter=generated gt -2d AND severity NOT IN ('success', 'informational')\" MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=10
>  }
>
> define command {
>         command_name    check_nrpe
>         command_line    /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe $ARG1$
>         }
> ----
>
> In Nagios 4, this fails. To get the same result, you need to configure it as:
> ----
> define service {
>   ...
>   check_command           check_nrpe!-H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c CheckEventLog -a file=Application "filter=generated gt -2d AND severity NOT IN ('success', 'informational')" MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=10
>  }
> ----
>
> I can't quite understand the Nagios 3 rules versus the Nagios 4 rules or what the conversion process should be. Is there anything that is going to be provided for Nagios 4 to ease migrating existing configurations?
>
> Ton
>
>
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