Dynamically generated service checks

[Kevin Keane]

Marc Powell wrote:
> 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.
>   
I am using a script to look for these error messages. In my situation, 
the list of services changes only rarely, so all this script does is 
submit another check result to Nagios to alert me that I need to 
manually add a service. You could also use such a script to 
automatically add any new services, and then restart Nagios.

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