distributed servers - how to tell which one executed a check?

[jeff vier]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 14:21 -0700, Trask wrote:
> I haven't seen anything in the docs about this...  I am hoping to have
> an indication somewhere of which distributed nagios server executed
> the last check.
> 
> A little background into my setup:
> - 4 nagios servers (all running 2.2 now)
> - nag1, nag2 and nag3 at each office/colo
> - nag4 is the central server receiving passive check info and serving
> as a fallback if one of the other 3 fail (and also importantly, the
> visual interface to all the checks).
> 
> These are glued together with some homebrew scripts to ease management
> of the distributed setup.  My goal is to be able to see which of these
> servers executed the last check.
> 
> As a stop-gap measure I modified p1.pl to prepend the nagios server's
> hostname to the plugins output.  This is an acceptable solution for
> the perl scripts, but that doesn't include any of the other (non-perl)
> plugins.
> 
> Anyone accomplish this already or have an idea of how to do this?

What I do is set $USER32$ to the geographic location (say, UK or DE),
then my distributed submit script (via nsca) sends '$USER32$ -
$HOSTOUTPUT$' (or '$USER32$ - $SERVICEOUTPUT$') for the output instead
of just the output.

Works like a charm.
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