The reason of commands.cfg.

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Wed Oct 7 22:12:31 CEST 2009


On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Albert Shih wrote:

> Le 05/10/2009 à 13:34:30-0400, Noel Platzke a écrit
> Thanks for you answer.
>
>
>> Say we have a bunch of servers that need multiple checks that do an  
>> HTTP GET on
>> different URIs and look for a specific string in the response.  
>> Isn't it easier
>> to maintain a single command that takes a few arguments than having  
>> to
>> constantly define a new command that does basically the same thing  
>> for each
>> service check? And if down the road someday HTTP becomes HTTPS you  
>> only need to
>> edit one configuration.
>
> You mean they are no other reason like perfomance (register like  
> object) ?
> or security reason ?


While there may be arguments for both, the flexibility available just  
due to the implementation of command definitions is more than enough  
reason for their existence. Nagios 1.x and Netsaint had support for  
specifying raw command lines in the host and service definitions but  
it was dropped after those versions.

--
Marc


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