Ignoring a particular alarm (on purpose)?

[jeff vier]

Please don't reply just to me.  *Always* reply to the list (except,
perhaps, to only say "thanks" :) ), thanks.

On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 11:13 +0200, max wrote: 
> How do you check for Windows Update availability with nagios?

define command{
        command_name    check_nt_windows_update
        command_line    $USER1$/negate $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$
-v PROCSTATE -d SHOWALL -l wuauclt.exe


check_nt uses the NSClient suite (or NC_Net, or whatever other
replacement).

What that check is doing, in case it's unclear, is checking for the
existence of a running 'wuauclt.exe' process, then negating the result
(so, running==critical, no process==OK)

> jeff vier wrote:
> 
> >Here's a weird one.
> >
> >I have a request to be able to filter out a particular alarm on the
> >Service Status Page.
> >
> >The problem is that I have Nagios set up to watch for Windows Update
> >(WU) availability, but it can take WEEKS for the Windows Admin to roll
> >them out to all the Windows Servers.  So, in the interim, we're staring
> >down a few hundred WU alerts.
> >
> >A couple of the folks in the NOC have asked if there's a way to not see
> >them (but still see everything else).
> >
> >I figure I *COULD* code it out of the cgi, but then why watch for the
> >WUs at all (we don't page on them).
> >
> >Any idea?  (regex filter that can be passed arbitrary values via GET
> >variables? *fingers crossed*)
> >
> >Thanks for any help.
> >
> >--jeff

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