Manually run custom command via nagios dashboard possible?

Alex Griffin agriffin at nagios.com
Wed May 30 16:51:30 CEST 2012


You could set up something like Ajaxterm so that you could log in to 
your nagios server from a web browser.

Alex Griffin
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On 05/25/2012 10:19 AM, Ajay Jethani wrote:
> Is there a recommended or a sample framework (outside of nagios) that
> would be useful in implementing that page or is the page that it would
> point to something that is mostly home-grown by developers?
>
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se
> <mailto:ae at op5.se>> wrote:
>
>     On 05/25/2012 03:29 PM, Ajay Jethani wrote:
>      > I'd like the nagios dashboard to allow me to run commands
>     MANUALLY when I
>      > see there is an issue.
>      > For example, when a service goes into the 'CRITICAL state' I
>     would check
>      > the dashboard and do a sanity check by looking at the performance
>     output
>      > and perhaps even log onto the machine. I'd like to keep the
>     dashboard open
>      > and click a hyperlink that executes a command that I choose on
>     the remote
>      > machine.
>      >
>      > I know there is the concept of event handlers which can AUTOMATICALLY
>      > execute a command when a service check returns a failure, but I'd
>     prefer to
>      > do this type of healing manually.
>      >
>      > Does nagios offer an ability to run a custom command/script I
>     choose via
>      > the dashboard?
>      >
>
>     No. That would be akin to building in a secure shell client into Nagios,
>     which is something we'll most likely never (ever) do.
>
>     Most people who've wanted to do similar things make a separate page for
>     it, point action_url or notes_url to that page, and then handle stuff
>     in a script of their own.
>
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