Service checks

[Hari Sekhon]

You need to reread the docs, this is the most basic of questions.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#service

Hint: You are missing a service_description in the last block for one. 
You should not have name in that last block either, you need host_name.

Read docs pls.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Jerad Riggin wrote:
> I have a functioning nagios setup but I have a quick question.  I am 
> going through and adding website string checks so we can keep track of 
> availability on one of our webservers. 
>
> So in services.cfg I have
>
> define service{
>         name                            generic-service ; Generic 
> service name
>         active_checks_enabled           1               ; Active 
> service checks are enabled
>         passive_checks_enabled          1               ; Passive 
> service checks are enabled/accepted
>         parallelize_check               1               ; Active 
> service checks should be parallelized (Don't disable)
>         obsess_over_service             1               ; We should 
> obsess over this service (if necessary)
>         check_freshness                 0               ; Default is 
> to NOT check service 'freshness'
>         notifications_enabled           1               ; Service 
> notifications are enabled
>         event_handler_enabled           1               ; Service 
> event handler is enabled
>         flap_detection_enabled          1               ; Flap 
> detection is enabled
>         process_perf_data               1               ; Process 
> performance data
>         retain_status_information       1               ; Retain 
> status information across program restarts
>         retain_nonstatus_information    1               ; Retain 
> non-status information across program restarts
>         register                        0               ; DONT 
> REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
>         }
>
> define service{
>         use                             generic-service
>         name                            basic-service
>         is_volatile                     0
>         check_period                    24x7
>         max_check_attempts              5
>         normal_check_interval           3
>         retry_check_interval            1
>         notification_interval           15
>         notification_period             24x7
>         register                        0
>         }
>
> I then have as just one example:
>
> define service{
>         use                             basic-service
>         name                            check-site4
>         notification_options            w,u,c,r
>         check_command                   check_http!site.com!20!"Home"
>         register                        0
>         }
>
>
> My question is, you notice that I have the name as check-site4, and 
> then later on in the services.cfg I call up that checksite-4.  Is this 
> the correct way?  Do I need to define a service for each host and then 
> later on call it by name to execute the service check?  Is this a bad 
> way of going about it? 
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerad
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