service templates
Terry
td3201 at gmail.com
Tue May 6 16:39:59 CEST 2008
Please point me to these service profiles in the documentation, having
trouble finding them.
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Deborah Martin
<Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com> wrote:
> They are available as part of the standard config. I've used them since
> 2005.
>
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> From: Aaron M. Segura [mailto:aaron.segura at cabelas.com]
> Sent: 06 May 2008 15:34
> To: Terry
> Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] service templates
>
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> What you're talking about sounds like Service Profiles, which, I
> believe, are not available via regular nagios configs, but rather via a
> third party GUI configuration tool like Monarch (amongst others,
> probably).
>
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:30 -0500, Terry wrote:
> > 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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