Exploding check commands batman ...

[Gavin Carr]

Hi all,

I'm just wanting to sanity check whether I'm missing something in 
how check_commands and services work together. To do various kinds
of http checks, for instance, I've currently got the following 
defined in check_commands.cfg (Nagios 1.2, btw):

define command{
  command_name    check_http 
  command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$
  }
define command{
  command_name    check_http_auth
  command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -a '$ARG1$'
  }
define command{
  command_name    check_http_str
  command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -s '$ARG1$'
  }
define command{
  command_name    check_http_re
  command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -l -R '$ARG1$'
  }
define command{
  command_name    check_http_uri_str
  command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u '$ARG1$' -s '$ARG2$'
  }
define command{
  command_name    check_http_uri_re
  command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u '$ARG1$' -l -R '$ARG2$'
  }

I've got another set where I want to specify the host using 
'-H $ARG1$', and then all of those are duplicated with '-S' for 
https tests, etc., so I've got 24 or so http test so far. Now I 
want to monitor another set of sites on a non-standard port, so 
I need an additional '-p' argument!

Is this the way other people are doing it, or am I missing 
something obvious? Is this handled any differently in version 
2.0? 

Cheers,
Gavin



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