True, but our NOC people are looking at Icinga all the time, so I find
it shows up quicker like this. Also, then it gets logged in my
icinga.log
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Wolfgang <w...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Sending an e-mail with a certain subject and filtering it via a rule might
> be another option.
>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. März 2013 um 14:41 Uhr
> Von: "Zachary McGibbon" <zachary.mcgib...@gmail.com>
> An: icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: [icinga-users] Icinga Configuration Check - Passive Service
> I'm not sure if anyone else is doing this but I thought I'd share a
> neat little trick I did. Our Icinga setup is quite large, 7300+ hosts
> and 16000 services and they mostly all come from an Oracle database.
> We run scripts that pulls the data every 4 hours and reloads Icinga
> automatically. Of course, there are often inconsistencies (mostly
> child/parent relationships) so we need to know when something is
> broken. Since I get over 100+ emails from Icinga per day, I
> automatically put them in a folder that I don't look at very often, so
> even when my script runs every 4 hours, these failure emails go into
> this folder too.
>
> To remedy this situation, I created a passive service for my Icinga
> host called 'Icinga Config'. When my script runs to update my config,
> at the end it checks if there were any errors and then sends a passive
> check to this service. Since I run Nagstamon on my desktop, I see the
> alert right away when it breaks.
>
> Examples:
>
> define service{
> use server_icinga
> service_description Icinga Config
> active_checks_enabled 0
> notifications_enabled 1
> flap_detection_enabled 0
> check_freshness 0
> check_command check_icinga_stats!0
> hostgroup_name server_icinga
> servicegroups icinga
> }
>
> Then my shell script that runs every 4 hours (just the last part):
>
> # Event handler to submit check results
> EVENTHANDLER="/usr/lib64/icinga/eventhandlers/submit_check_result"
>
> # Set ICINGACHK
> ICINGACHK="/var/spool/icinga/icinga.chk"
>
> if [ -f $ICINGACHK ]; then
> $EVENTHANDLER etna "Icinga Config" 2 "CRITICAL - Please Verify
> Icinga Config"
> else
> $EVENTHANDLER etna "Icinga Config" 0 "OK - Icinga Config is Good"
> fi
>
> Enjoy!
>
> - Zachary
>
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