service templates

[Terry]

Thanks for the reply.  I do this already.  This just cuts down on the
number of lines in a service check.  It doesn't allow me to glob a set
of services into a single service or host definition though, which is
what I want (i think).

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Deborah Martin
<Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com> wrote:
> Terry,
>  You can do exactly that :
>
>  In the main services.cfg, define your template
>
>  define service{
>         name                    my-service ; The 'name' of this service
>  template, referenced in other service definitions
>         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 (disabling this can lead to major performance
>  problems)
>         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 - ITS NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
>         }
>
>  You need to change / add whatever else you want in there.
>
>  Then for the service definition specific to a host :
>
>  define service{
>         use                     my-service   ; this will load the service
>  template my-service
>         host_name               yourhostname
>         service_description     yourdescription
>         contact_groups          yourcontactgroups
>         servicegroups           yourservicegroups
>         max_check_attempts      1
>         normal_check_interval   5
>         retry_check_interval    1
>         notifications_enabled   1       ; Service notifications are enabled
>         notification_interval   240
>         notification_period     24x7
>         notification_options    c,r       ; Notifications are sent out on
>  CRITICAL or RECOVERY
>         check_period            24x7
>         check_command           check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
>         }
>
>  You can do lots of stuff with this. I use the above for checking databases,
>  but each database is slightly different
>  so I use a template for the base, then define only the differences in the
>  individual service definitions. Also,
>  if you define the check_command in the template, but want to change the
>  check_command slightly like the parameters passed to it, anything you put in
>  the service definition overrides the template definition. Very useful if you
>  want to test a plugin on a live system but don't want to change for
>  everything until you're happy with it.
>
>  Hope that helps.
>
>  regards,
>  deborah
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Terry [mailto:td3201 at gmail.com]
>  Sent: 06 May 2008 15:11
>  To: Nagios Users mailinglist
>  Subject: [Nagios-users] service templates
>
>
>  I am figuring this is pretty obvious but the coffee hasn't kicked in
>  yet or something.  I want to set up service templates of some sorts.
>  I see there are service groups but this isn't it exactly because you
>  have to define the host with each service.   For example, a template
>  would contain all of our base windows service that we monitor and then
>  one of our level 1 or 2 guys can go in and 'use windows-base' to
>  simply include that set of services for a host.   I hope this makes
>  sense.
>
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