NSCA kinda... Monitored host to Nagios server info

[Morris, Patrick]

This sounds like it may be similar to a situation I deal with -- I
monitor a bunch of databases that shut down nightly to sync up with
other DBs, and the DB is down while this happens.

What I do is use nagios-statd to check if the db sync process is
running, and set a check to a warning state if it is.  I then have a
notification dependency on the main DB checks: if the sync check is in a
warning state, notifications are disabled.

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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Richard A
Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:20 PM
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Subject: [Nagios-users] NSCA kinda... Monitored host to Nagios server
info


I've got a medium site monitored with Nagios, and really like the
changes in V2 :)

Here's one thing I have not been able to figure out how to handle:

I monitor service X on about a dozen machines Some of those machines run
testcases, which interfere with  service X
 	1) I want to stop notifications before running those testcases
 	2) I want to run the testcases, which corrupt, fill service X
 	   without flooding myself with mails
 	3) After the testcases are run, I want to re-enable
notifications
 	4) This must all be scriptable

My first thought was NSCA, but I can't see how to have it do more than
the usual passive notification it seems designed for.

My next thought was to ssh from the monitored host to the server, with a
dedicated key (only able to start/stop notification), and have a script
on the monitoring server that dis/en-abled notifications.

The problem is that the ssh approach looks to work, but requires
different scripts, and keys for each scenario - I just don't seee it
scaling well.

Has anyone done something like this already ?
--
Rick Nelson
Life'll kill ya                         -- Warren Zevon
Then you'll be dead                     -- Life'll kill ya


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