You, sir, are a genius!! Thank you!
-----Original Message----- From: Steven Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 1, 2006 9:39 AM To: Janet Post Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor transient services? On 27/07/2006, at 12:11 AM, Janet Post wrote: > Hello, > > We are monitoring several different types of very fluid services and I > am having a design problem -- how do I set these up neatly in nagios. > > The first of these checks is a script that runs agains a reporting > database. This script runs every five minutes to make sure that > all of > the reports ran, or are running correctly. There are, at the moment, > around 50 reports, but the number and frequency of the reports changes > on a nearly daily basis. Granted, some reports are fairly stable: the > one that tells our VP's how much money we made last night is one that > rarely changes. But there are a number of one-off reports that are > created and deleted on an almost daily basis. I do NOT want to > maintain > a check in nagios for each and every report -- that's an > administrative > nightmare. I want to just run this script that checks them all at the > same time - no fuss no muss. BUT! And here is the problem: How do I > return the results to nagios? It is conceivable that more than one > report will fail at a time, and I will want notifications sent for all > failures. I don't mind clumping them into one email -- but can NRPE > handle more than one line of return values? > > The script in question is run remotely from my main nagios server. I > can invoke it either using nrpe, or via cron -- whichever way I see > fit. > > Any ideas on how I can solve this dilemma? How can I return multiple > errors for a single check? (I have an oracle tablespace check that > suffers the same problem -- too many transient tablespaces to be > monitored and I don't want to have a check for each TS because they > are > too temporary.) Hi Janet, It is true that only one line is supported. However, since the output is going to be rendered by a browser you can embed HTML in that one line. So, for example, you can put a <PRE> at the start and use <BR> to begin each new line. I have used this technique quite successfully. The only small drawback is, if you are sending out page messages you will need a small intermediate script to strip out the HTML again before sending the text to the paging process. Cheers Steven -- Steven Lynch [Chief Technical Officer] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Box Australia Pty Ltd Phone: +61-3-88410000 Suite 9 / 1020 Doncaster Road, Fax: +61-3-88410088 Doncaster East, Vic, Australia, 3109 Web: www.network-box.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
