Dynamically generated service checks

[Marc Powell]

On Jul 15, 2009, at 11:13 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

> IMO, the ideal solution here would be if I could just submit passive
> check results for services that aren't explicitly configured in  
> Nagios.
>  But alas, that's not allowed and it fails with messages like  
> "Warning:
>  Passive check result was received for service 'foo' on host
> 'mysql-dev', but the service could not be found!"

That's correct but this would be a lot like submitting SNMP traps to  
nagios. You might glance over that documentation to get ideas. You  
could create a generic service, set it as passive and volatile and  
then just start submitting passive results to it with descriptive/ 
useful output. Each non-ok result would generate an alert so you  
wouldn't miss anything but if you don't build in some protections, you  
could repeat notify about the same problem.

--
Marc


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