Is there a testing or debugging mode for nagio s?

[Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de]

Hi Bob,

what kind of plug-in is check_period?

I cannot find it in my Nagios installation.
nor in the tarballs of either Nagios or Nagios-plugins.

Is it a kind of NoOp plug-in stub I would have to write?

How can I re-schedule from the command line.

My Nagios web interface (i.e. the CGIs) are still a bit broken
(I could easily fix if I had root privileges on the webserver to
edit httpd.conf)
Anyway, I'm a bit shell-fixed and avoid GUIs whenever possible.
I know with Nagios I probably would miss half the fun,
but this seems cosmetic to me, and can be addressed later when
the base system is at least working satisfactorily.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sloane, Robert Raymond [mailto:sloane at ku.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:03 PM
> To: Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Is there a testing or debugging
mode for
> nagios?
> 
> 
> Why not put a "check_period none" in the template, so that the
checks
> won't normally be scheduled, and then use the "Re-schedule the
next
> check of this service" link to schedule the check when you want
it to
> happen?  Once things are debugged, you can set the check_period
in the
> actual entry to whatever is appropriate.
> -- 
> Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS,
66045
> Email:sloane at ku.edu http://www.ku.edu/home/sloane
Phone:(785)864-0444
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> > [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> > Of Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:55 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Is there a testing or debugging mode 
> > for nagios?
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > this morning I received the contempt of my fellow admins 
> > because nagios swamped their mailboxes over night. Well, it 
> > wasn't of course nagios' fault but mine because I defined a 
> > template service wherein I referenced a conact_groups that 
> > comprised all of us. When later adding new services I simply 
> > forgot to override this attribute with a contact group that 
> > contained only my mail account (until I've come to terms with

> > configuring).
> > 
> > That's why I desperately miss a means to run a nagios daemon 
> > that isn't scheduling the checks by itself but rather by 
> > manual invocation. I'd also wish to test out alerting and 
> > event handling myself by raising events (e.g. to see where in

> > the end the notification is delivered to).
> > 
> > Does nagios provide special utilities, or switches to support

> > (high level) debugging that way?
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > 
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