event_handlers through nrpe?

[Hari Sekhon]

actually now I think about it, nrpe isn't well suited to this, you'd 
have to enable command args to pass those and that is considered a 
security risk.

you'd be better off using ssh keys.

on fact, my event handlers run on my server with ssh keys to kill or 
restart something on another server.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Paul Archer wrote:
> I suppose I should have been more explicit in my first email. The 
> problem I'm having is not with the basic chain of commands, but with 
> all the environmental variables/macros. Figuring out what to put where 
> to get the $SERVICESTATE$ $SERVICESTATETYPE$ $SERVICEATTEMPT$ data all 
> the way to the remote machine is giving me a headache.
> Perhaps using ssh is the way to go...
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Hari Sekhon wrote:
>
>> my event handlers run over ssh but this doesn't seem difficult to do 
>> at all, just create an event handler script, copy it to the remote 
>> machine and then put a command in the nrpe.cfg for that machine.
>>
>> [event_handler_name]=/path/my_event_handler_script.sh
>>
>> then create a checkcommand like so
>>
>> define command{
>>   command_name    blah_event_handler     command_line        
>> check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c event_handler_name
>> }
>>
>> then just add the line
>>
>> event_handler    blah_event_handler
>>
>> to the service definition
>>
>> that should sort it.
>>
>>
>> -h
>>
>> Hari Sekhon
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Archer wrote:
>>> Can anyone point me to a HOWTO or other documentation for setting up 
>>> an event handler that runs on a remote machine (probably through nrpe)?
>>> I've gone over the docs for setting up a local event handler, but 
>>> translating that to a remote handler is just not working for me 
>>> right now.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> Paul Archer
>>>
>>>
>

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