Bulk Change: Event Handlers?

[mbeebe]

Hello,

Is there a way to make bulk changes in order to add event handlers to a group of hosts/services? Apart from a lot of sed, that is.

Thanks as always,

-- Mike Beebe

[eloyd]

Do you have Nagios Enterprise add-on? If so, then you have the Bulk Change Tool in the Core Config Manager that will allow you to enable/disable the event handler for multiple services. It does not, however, let you specify what the event handler command is (this should be a feature request!)

The best thing you can do is to make a new service template that has the correct event handler information and then use the bulk change tool to apply the service template to multiple services. Then you've effectively added a layer of abstraction that does what you want.

But it still requires the bulk change tool. Otherwise, it's export/modify/import at the Nagios Core config file level.

[benjaminsmith]

Thanks Eric! I'll put in a feature request for the setting the event handler command in the Bulk Mods Tool.

@mbeebe, Just let us know if you have any additional questions.

[mbeebe]

Thanks, Ben and Eloyd;

Will Global Event Handlers do what I want? I need to add an event handler to every host and service I'm monitoring.

-- Mike Beebe

[scottwilkerson]

Global Event Handlers would do what you want if you want to add the same event handler to ALL hosts/services, but it cannot handle different handlers per host/service.

[eloyd]

You could program logic into a global event handler that did different sub tasks for different services though.

[scottwilkerson]

You could program logic into a global event handler that did different sub tasks for different services though.

true

[mbeebe]

Can I please request this thread not be locked yet? I will have some other questions, but time prohibits me from asking them now.

Thanks,

-- Mike Beebe

[benjaminsmith]

Can I please request this thread not be locked yet? I will have some other questions, but time prohibits me from asking them now.

No problem. We'll keep it open.

[mbeebe]

Hello,

You may close this thread now as we're going to come at this from a different direction.

-- Mike Beebe