Re: [icinga-users] how to ignore a Host

[Michael Martinez]

I would like to ignore them as if they didn't exist, as if Icinga did
not care to check their status. The reason is because my list of host
objects is imported automatically and it's a very large list. There's
a subset of hosts we don't want icinga to monitor, and it would be
easier for me to tell Icinga not to monitor them (if possible) rather
than modify the software that's generating this list of objects.

I'll look into the check_period = "never" option you mentioned. Thanks.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Kai Nothdurft  wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> so what do you mean with ignore? If it's showing OK, you can ignore the
> host, don't you? If you don't use a check_command, what should be shown
> in the Web-interface? Or do you want the hosts be hidden from the
> Webinterface? How do you want to hide them? If from the GUI, how would
> you reenable the host? Or do you want to "disable" the hosts(s)
> programmatically? Would be a reload of Icinga2 a problem then?
>
> Though I don't really understand, what you are trying to achieve, you
> may play around with parameter "check_period" and create a timeperiod
> "never".
>
> brgds
> Kai
>
>
 On 18.10.2016 at 03:17, Michael Martinez  wrote:
>> Hi Kai,
>>
>> Yes, I understand that. But a dummy check that always returns OK is
>> misleading. The hosts themselves may be Up, may be Down, but for a
>> particular subset of hosts we don't want to know either way. We
> would
>> rather ignore them.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Kai Nothdurft
> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> I know, you wrote, that you don't want to assign a dummy check -
> but
>>> why not? You could use the built-in "dummy"-check for this:
>>>
>>>
>>> object Host "unchecked-host" {
>>>   import "generic-host"
>>>
>>>   check_command = "dummy"
>>>
>>>   vars.dummy_state  = 0
>>>   vars.dummy_text   = "This host will never be checked and
> shows
>>> always OK"
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> hth
>>> Kai>>> On 06.10.2016 at 19:18, Michael Martinez 
>>> wrote:
 Hi Hasan, thanks for your reply. I should be more clear: I am
>>> actually
 looking to ignore the Host check itself. What you've written works
>>> for
 service checks only.

 On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, hasan akgöz
> 
>>> wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> if you hostname or ip adress whatever is static you can use
> ignore
>>> keyword
> follow like ;
>
> apply Service "Service Name" {
>   ...
>
>   assign where match("web*.example.org", host.name)
>   ignore where host.name
> }
>
>
>
> 2016-10-05 19:51 GMT+03:00 Michael Martinez :
>>
>> we need to exclude certain hosts based on AWS
>> attributes (VpcId
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [icinga-users] how to ignore a Host

[Kai Nothdurft]

Hi Michael,

so what do you mean with ignore? If it's showing OK, you can ignore the
host, don't you? If you don't use a check_command, what should be shown
in the Web-interface? Or do you want the hosts be hidden from the
Webinterface? How do you want to hide them? If from the GUI, how would
you reenable the host? Or do you want to "disable" the hosts(s)
programmatically? Would be a reload of Icinga2 a problem then?

Though I don't really understand, what you are trying to achieve, you
may play around with parameter "check_period" and create a timeperiod
"never".

brgds
Kai


>>> On 18.10.2016 at 03:17, Michael Martinez  wrote:
> Hi Kai,
> 
> Yes, I understand that. But a dummy check that always returns OK is
> misleading. The hosts themselves may be Up, may be Down, but for a
> particular subset of hosts we don't want to know either way. We
would
> rather ignore them.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Kai Nothdurft
 
> wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> I know, you wrote, that you don't want to assign a dummy check -
but
>> why not? You could use the built-in "dummy"-check for this:
>>
>>
>> object Host "unchecked-host" {
>>   import "generic-host"
>>
>>   check_command = "dummy"
>>
>>   vars.dummy_state  = 0
>>   vars.dummy_text   = "This host will never be checked and
shows
>> always OK"
>>
>> }
>>
>> hth
>> Kai>>> On 06.10.2016 at 19:18, Michael Martinez 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Hasan, thanks for your reply. I should be more clear: I am
>> actually
>>> looking to ignore the Host check itself. What you've written works
>> for
>>> service checks only.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, hasan akgöz

>> wrote:
 Hello Michael,

 if you hostname or ip adress whatever is static you can use
ignore
>> keyword
 follow like ;

 apply Service "Service Name" {
   ...

   assign where match("web*.example.org", host.name)
   ignore where host.name
 }



 2016-10-05 19:51 GMT+03:00 Michael Martinez :
>
> we need to exclude certain hosts based on AWS
> attributes (VpcId






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Re: [icinga-users] how to ignore a Host

[Michael Martinez]

Hi Kai,

Yes, I understand that. But a dummy check that always returns OK is
misleading. The hosts themselves may be Up, may be Down, but for a
particular subset of hosts we don't want to know either way. We would
rather ignore them.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Kai Nothdurft  wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I know, you wrote, that you don't want to assign a dummy check - but
> why not? You could use the built-in "dummy"-check for this:
>
>
> object Host "unchecked-host" {
>   import "generic-host"
>
>   check_command = "dummy"
>
>   vars.dummy_state  = 0
>   vars.dummy_text   = "This host will never be checked and shows
> always OK"
>
> }
>
> hth
> Kai>>> On 06.10.2016 at 19:18, Michael Martinez 
> wrote:
>> Hi Hasan, thanks for your reply. I should be more clear: I am
> actually
>> looking to ignore the Host check itself. What you've written works
> for
>> service checks only.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, hasan akgöz 
> wrote:
>>> Hello Michael,
>>>
>>> if you hostname or ip adress whatever is static you can use ignore
> keyword
>>> follow like ;
>>>
>>> apply Service "Service Name" {
>>>   ...
>>>
>>>   assign where match("web*.example.org", host.name)
>>>   ignore where host.name
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-10-05 19:51 GMT+03:00 Michael Martinez :

 we need to exclude certain hosts based on AWS
 attributes (VpcId
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: [icinga-users] how to ignore a Host

[Michael Martinez]

Hi Hasan, thanks for your reply. I should be more clear: I am actually
looking to ignore the Host check itself. What you've written works for
service checks only.

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, hasan akgöz  wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> if you hostname or ip adress whatever is static you can use ignore keyword
> follow like ;
>
> apply Service "Service Name" {
>   ...
>
>   assign where match("web*.example.org", host.name)
>   ignore where host.name
> }
>
>
>
> 2016-10-05 19:51 GMT+03:00 Michael Martinez :
>>
>> we need to exclude certain hosts based on AWS
>> attributes (VpcId
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [icinga-users] how to ignore a Host

[hasan akgöz]

Hello Michael,

if you hostname or ip adress whatever is static you can use ignore keyword
follow like ;

apply Service "Service Name" {
  ...

  assign where match("web*.example.org", host.name)
  ignore where host.name
}



2016-10-05 19:51 GMT+03:00 Michael Martinez :

> we need to exclude certain hosts based on AWS
> attributes (VpcId
>
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Re: [icinga-users] how to ignore a Host

[Michael Martinez]

Any ideas? The reason I need this is that I have a script which
generates a list of "object Host" for our EC2 instances. This happens
automatically and we need to exclude certain hosts based on AWS
attributes (VpcId). However, I am unable to modify the script, so I
need a way to do this in Icinga2. Ideally I would like to *ignore* the
host objects rather than assign a dummy check to them.

Any ideas are appreciated.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Michael Martinez  wrote:
> Is there a way to tell Icinga2 not to monitor a particular Host
> object? To completely ignore it. Does putting it into Downtime achieve
> this, or is there another way?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
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[icinga-users] how to ignore a Host

[Michael Martinez]

Is there a way to tell Icinga2 not to monitor a particular Host
object? To completely ignore it. Does putting it into Downtime achieve
this, or is there another way?

Thanks for your help!

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