Re: [Pnp4nagios-users] Seeking help with custom/special template

[Frater, G. J <GJF...@be...>]

>
>Let me reask my question in a different way, maybe I can say it better.
>I would like to get a particular service check using the generic
"check_multi" plugin to use a special template.  My understanding is
that to do that I need a custom template.  To point this unique instance
of the >"check_multi" plugin to the special template I have tried to use
a custom template setting of >"CUSTOM_TEMPLATE = 1" in a config file
located here >"/usr/local/nagios/etc/pnp/check_commands/check_multi.cfg"
>to uniquely identify the service check for a special template based on
the first argument ($ARG1$) of the service check but all I am getting in
the xml file is "<TEMPLATE></TEMPLATE>".  My understanding of the custom
>template setting is that it will read the $ARG1$ value of the service
check and look for a template with that >name.  Thus I would expect the
xml file to read "<TEMPLATE>value for $ARG1$</TEMPLATE>".  This last
part is not happening.  Am I understanding how this works wrong?  My
problem seems to lie in the custom template area >not the special
template part (that's a whole other challenge for me but I'm not there
yet).  What do you suggest?
>
>
When using the "check_multi" plugin and setting it with a reporting
option "-r +32" PNP seems to always treat it as a "check_multi" plugin.
I had tried to get away from this by making a copy of the "check_multi"
plugin and calling it something else altogether but as long as you are
setting it with the "-r +32" reporting value PNP handles the output as
coming from "check_multi".  Unless you set a "check_multi" custom
template value then you get a blank value in the TEMPLATE tag of the xml
files.  Changing the reporting value to the standard perfdata format of
"-r +8" in check_multi allows me to specify a template based on the name
of the service check, in my case "check_multi_memory".  I think I got
this worked out, now we'll see how I do with creating custom
graphs...thanks for the help

-greg