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Gray Race
Asked: 2012-01-26 09:40:30 +0800 CST

How do you Null an inherited service check in nagios?

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We have a nagios setup that uses inheritance to a larger degree than I am used to. I’ve read the documentation at:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html

But I still can’t get my head around how to accomplish my goal.

I have server/host that has notified for procs warning. I investigated this and it is a known bug and safely ignored for this specific server. Ideally I’d like to increase the warning/critical points for the service definition for just this host; but I’m also comfortable just not using this service check until a patch for the current problem is issued. Disabling via the web interface is not an acceptable option for my mangers.

Service definition:

define service{
            use                             unix-agent-service
            hostgroup_name                  linux-servers
            service_description             Agent: Total Processes
            check_command                   check_nrpe!check_total_procs
    }

The host definition: 

define host{
        use                     linux-server
        host_name               unixlab
        alias                   Unix Lab
        address                 PRIVATE
        }

Group/server Definition:

define host{
        name                            linux-server
        use                             generic-host
        alias                           Linux server
        hostgroups                      linux-servers
        register                        0
        }

The host inherits all the services defined in the hostgroup linux-servers. I’ve tried giving the service check a name and then setting that name to null in the host definition, but I think this syntax is wrong and/or I’m not understanding that part of inheritance:

define service{
        **name                                            agent-total-processes** 
       use                                             unix-agent-service
        hostgroup_name                  linux-servers
        service_description             Agent: Total Processes
        check_command                   check_nrpe!check_total_procs
}

The host definition: 

define host{
        use                     linux-server
        host_name               unixlab
        alias                   Unix Lab
        address                 PRIVATE
        **agent-total-processes    null**
}

I’m sure I’m missing something obvious… based on my reading of inheritance this should be possible but I’m not able to wrap my head around it.

Thoughts?

nagios

1 Answers

  1. In the service definition, you can exclude (using !) the particular host that you don't want to run it on:

    define service {
        use                             unix-agent-service
        hostgroup_name                  linux-servers
        host_name                       !unixlab
        service_description             Agent: Total Processes
        check_command                   check_nrpe!check_total_procs
}

    This will leave the service applied to every member of "linux-servers", except "unixlab".

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