Just an update on this particular issue... I created a simple shell script that pinged a list of all devices on our wireless map and returned a threshold value based on the number of devices that were unresponsive. I called this script from the Nagios probe in InterMapper. This was on version 5.1, so the way I interfaced with the InterMapper map was ugly. I used the CLI web browser Links to scrape the map's device list on our InterMapper web page, cleaned it up, and had my list. Now that we're on 5.2, I hope to use the API to obtain this information instead.
In the future, I may also revisit the check_multi Nagios plugin again now that the API is available. In 5.1, I had no way to get a list of device IPs to the check_multi plugin for testing. I still may not in 5.2 -- just haven't looked close enough at it yet. -- Dave Stempien University of Rochester Medical Center Information Systems Division Networking/Security/Communications (585) 784-2427 On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Richard E. Brown wrote: > Folks: > > Here's the second of Dave Stempian's questions. > > --- Dave Stempian wrote: > Map Status Thresholds > Suppose I have a map status probe for a map that contains 2000 wireless APs. > > I don't want a critical notification for the map status probe if only one of > that > map's devices goes down (or into alarm/warning/etc). I wish there could be a > > way to say, "set critical alarm if 100 devices within this map are down", or, > > "set warning if 10% of devices within this map are down", or something else > to > that effect. That would be very useful. As it is, we're forced to receive a > > critical notification each time a device that we deem to be low priority, > such > as APs or desktop switches, goes down. For these devices, I only want to > receive > notification for a major or catastrophic condition. > --- end of quote --- > > To the IM-Talk list. Are there other use cases/places you would use something > > like this? > > NB I saw a similar application with the check_multi Nagios plugin, that has a > > facility for something like this (see the "State Definition" at > http://my-plugin.de/wiki/projects/check_multi/configuration/file#state_-_state_definition > > ) > > Best regards, > > Rich Brown [email protected] > Dartware, LLC http://www.dartware.com > 66-7 Benning Street Telephone: 603-643-9600 > West Lebanon, NH 03784-3407 Fax: 603-643-2289 > ____________________________________________________________________ > List archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ > To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected]
