On Fri, August 28, 2009 13:26, Marc Powell wrote: > > On Aug 28, 2009, at 12:18 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> I don't really understand the purpose / utility of the "command" >> level of >> abstraction in Nagios configuration. (2.10; we're still on Centos >> 4.7). >> >> To define a new service to check particular Windows web services we've >> written, I define a service, and then it has to refer to a command, >> and >> over in the command I have to hard-code the parameters needed to >> test this >> specific service -- so in fact I need a separate command for each >> service. > > Can you give an example? I think you just don't know the flexibility > that is available.
That seems to be the case. > You shouldn't need to hard code much except those > things that are constant. Nagios has extensive macro capabilities and > allows you to pass much data from service definitions and other parts > of nagios to the commands being run. This allows you to re-use generic > command definitions between many different services that check similar > things. Have you read the Macro documentation, particularly passing > arguments to commands? I had no idea that "macros" described something having to do with command arguments, and the examples I saw looked very limited and were all involved with user names and passwords. >> As a broader question, are there documents that give more of a logical >> overview of Nagios, explaining how and why things are broken up and >> how they work together? > > The published Documentation? Beyond that, ask specifics but be sure > you've read the documentation first. I tried to find anything relevant on commands in the published documentation, and didn't find anything suggesting the possibility of command-line arguments, so I thought I'd checked and found it wasn't possible. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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
