Re: [Nagios-users] Inharitance for service check in host group

[Assaf F. <na...@fl...>]

Taylor A Judd wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> 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:
>
> # Linux host definition template
>
> 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?
>
> Taylor
>
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You can add to the service declaration

host_name !linux-server

That will tell nagios to exclude the execution of that service on that host.

Assaf