<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1>I usually combine the classic external command scripts with a smidge of perl to grab the members of the hostgroup that I want to trigger something for.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>If you give the following script a hostgroup name, it will grab the members from objects.cache:<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>#!/usr/local/nagios/bin/perl<o:p></o:p>use warnings;<o:p></o:p>use strict;<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>my $hostgroup = $ARGV[0];<o:p></o:p># here’s the spot where I should be checking that $hostgroup is defined…<o:p></o:p>open my $objects,'<','/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache' or die "Failure opening objects file: $!\n";<o:p></o:p>$/ = '}';<o:p></o:p>while (<$objects>) {<o:p></o:p> if (/hostgroup_name\s+($hostgroup)/gs) {<o:p></o:p> /members\s+(\S+)/gs;<o:p></o:p> my $members = $1;<o:p></o:p> my @members = split /,/,$members;<o:p></o:p> for my $member (@members) {<o:p></o:p> print "$member\n";<o:p></o:p> }<o:p></o:p> }<o:p></o:p>}<o:p></o:p>close $objects;<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>When you run that you get a list that you can feed to your external command script.<o:p></o:p>Here’s the idea in shell on the command line:<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>bash# for x in `get_hostgroup_members big_switches`;do trigger_service_script $x;done <o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p>Andy Ford<o:p></o:p>Network Security Engineer | Solutions Design & Automation| Information Security Technology<o:p></o:p>314-348-4937<o:p></o:p>andrew.ford@wellsfargo.com<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'>From: Michael Friedrich [mailto:michael.friedrich@univie.ac.at] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 2:54 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once<o:p></o:p></div></div><o:p> </o:p><tt>On 09.01.2012 20:53, Jake Xu wrote:</tt> <o:p></o:p><tt>Hi everyone,</tt> <o:p></o:p><div><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div><tt>From time to time, I need to restart or reschedule all services to verify that some new checks or new hosts are working properly. Is there any easy way to do that? I have a large number of hosts and services, so it would be tedious to click through a bunch of links via the web interface. Using external command is not very feasible as well because I would have to have all host names and service names for the command line commands.</tt><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><o:p> </o:p></div><div><tt>I have seen a pretty good idea on Icinga, a Nagios fork, for this purpose. It has a checkbox associated with each service check and a select-all checkbox to select all checkboxes. </tt><o:p></o:p></div> <tt>hehe. you just made ricardo and rune proud :-))</tt> <o:p></o:p><div><tt>It would be useful to have that on the Nagios Core, but AFAIK there isn't any.</tt><o:p></o:p></div> <tt>for the problem itsself - try OMD. nagios, icinga, shinken as core available whilst the gui decision is up to you.</tt> <tt><a href="http://omdistro.org">http://omdistro.org</a></tt> <o:p></o:p><div><o:p> </o:p></div><div><tt>Thanks in advance,</tt><o:p></o:p></div><div><tt>Jake</tt><o:p></o:p></div><pre><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre><tt>Ridiculously easy VDI. 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