More than one command defined

[Deborah Martin]

Thanks for the input everyone. Much appreciated. 

I'll try with merlin and see where that goes. And the script idea as well.
The trouble is Nagios is a complicated beast (to me anyway). Coupled with
that and getting pnp4nagios working as well this week, my head hurts from
config file overload :) 

Anyway all food for thought! 

Thanks again. 
Deborah  

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
Sent: 18 November 2010 17:10
To: Nagios Users List
Cc: Deborah Martin
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] More than one command defined

On 11/18/2010 05:25 PM, Deborah Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a need to run two different commands when processing the
performance
> data from Nagios (3.2.2)
> 
> I want the first  command to run the process-perfdata.pl script from
> pnp4nagios and the second command to log various things to a different log
> file.
> 
> The reason is that we've only just had a requirement to process
performance
> data for pnp4nagios graphing. But historically we've created our own
> "performance data" log
> which is then used within a database to produce SLA reports developed
> in-house (no graphing just numbers produced for the SLA reports)
> 
> If I do the following I don't get an errors when I run nagios -v
nagios.cfg
> ... :-
> 
> define command {
>          command_name process-service-perfdata-file
>          command_line<first command>  - process performance data for
> pnp4nagios
>          command_line<second command>  - log different data to a different
> file
>          }
> 

I'm not surprised. This is a sort of unintentional fallout that comes from
using the template system the way it's defined today. I guess only the
second command_line will get run though, right?

> I'd like to avoid creating a script with both commands in if I can help it
> as it's extremely useful to keep it simple and visible in the
> misccommands.cfg file.
> 
> Perhaps there is some other way I can do this or is a script with both
> commands really the only way ?
> 

You could use Merlin and set the perfdata_table option in the database
section of the daemon compound. Then you can grab the perfdata items
from the merlin database. Note that you'll have to drop old entries
from that table every once in a while though, as the table will surely
grow huge otherwise.

That doesn't really let you have things visible in the misccommands.cfg
file though, so you'll have to pick your poison on this one.

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