Fwd: Re: checking for results of external commands

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From: rjustinwilliams at gmail.com
Date: Feb 10, 2009 2:12pm
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] checking for results of external commands
To: "Dirk H. Schulz" <dirk.schulz at kinzesberg.de>


> Dirk
>
> This is largely going to depend upon the setup of the service. In RedHat,  
you can use "service foobar status" to return the current status of the  
service, foobar. Likewise, you can use "service foobar stop/start/restart"  
to stop/start/restart said service.
>
> In Gentoo, you use the init scripts directly, as "/etc/init.d/foobar  
start/stop/restart/status"
>
> Other flavors may differ further..
>
> In any case though, you should get feedback in the form of "Foobar is  
(not) running".
>
> You can write a script on the remote machine to parse that and, if it  
sees "not", it can exit with whatever nagios value you choose (3 for  
unknown, 2 for critical, 1 for warning, 0 for OK), which will cause Nagios  
to alert as you see fit; likewise, it not seeing a "not", you can have the  
script exit with a different value.
>
> HTH
>
> On Feb 10, 2009 12:46pm, "Dirk H. Schulz" dirk.schulz at kinzesberg.de>  
wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I know I can use external commands to enable/disable service checks
> >
> > and host checks - I already use that in scripts.
> >
> >
> >
> > But is there an external command I can use to check for the result of
> >
> > the enable/disable command - in other words, can I check the current
> >
> > state (enabled/disabled) of the service checks and host check for a
> >
> > certain host? I did not find anything that sounded fitting to me in
> >
> > the documentation of external commands.
> >
> >
> >
> > The reason is that it takes some time for the external commands to be
> >
> > worked upon; at the moment I use "sleep 120" steps in my scripts to
> >
> > wait for that which is quite ugly.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any hint or help is appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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