Do Not display Service Check in Web Interface

[mmartin]

Hello All,

Are there any directives that can be used for a Service Check that would prevent the Check from displaying on the Web Interface?
I have a check that I want to continue to run but I would like it to NOT be displayed in the Web GUI.

Is this possible? Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,
Matt

[abrist]

If you do not want to be notified or have the check appear in the interface, it seems like this is perfect use case for a cron job instead of a service check.

[mmartin]

Hey abrist, thanks for the reply!

Yea, that's how I have it setup currently (i.e. using cron with NSCA). I guess keeping it like that is the easier way to go...

What I was thinking, and the reason I had asked was, I was going to create a secondary "Service Check" for the one that's setup
in cron now, and I was thinking of having it execute the command using NRPE instead. But I guess the less "moving" parts the better.

I was just worried about something happening to the crontab entries since so many users use the server, I didn't want it getting deleted
accidentally or what not. But I guess the way I have it now, using cron and NSCA is the best way to go...


Thanks Again for the reply,
Matt

[abrist]

No problem. Nagios already uses cron extensively, so if your users are all thumbs and root, they can do sooo much more damage than screw up just a few custom crons. I have a habit of writing all my custom crons from a script saved in the /root home directory. That way I can quickly add them back if something *bad* happens. I do the same thing with odd/unique system configs. I hate redoing work.
Smart, not hard - the lazy admin is either stellar or horrible. Cheers.

[mmartin]

Ok cool, thanks again for the input...

I did a backup of cron this morning for that very reason!

Thanks Again,
Matt