Cisco UCSM Plugin Discovery

[CFT6Server]

I've install the UCS plugin and addon. Trying to run the Auto discovery which places cfg files in /usr/local/nagios/etc/cisco/ucsObjs/. However once it does that, I can no longer verify the configurations. It is complaining about a contactgroup that it cannot find. I created the contactgroup and made sure it was there. Any idea what is happening here? I ran some tests with an earlier version of Nagios XI before with this plugin and didn't run into this problem. I however at the time did have to manually import the host/servers cfg and the service groups, which I get why. But I can no longer get the configuration working and I suspect it has something to do with the plugin directly placing files in the Nagios configuration folders?

Right after I run the discovery, I get errors when I click on Verify Configuration in the Write Config Files section.

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Error: Contactgroup '"UCS admins"' is not defined anywhere 
Error: Could not add contactgroup '"UCS admins"' to host (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/cisco/ucsObjs/kdcbchucs03/kdcbchucs03_fi_A.cfg', starting on line 1) 

Nagios Core 4.0.8 
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Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad 
Last Modified: 08-12-2014 
License: GPL 

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Reading configuration data... 
Read main config file okay... 
WARNING: Extinfo objects are deprecated and will be removed in future versions 
WARNING: Extinfo objects are deprecated and will be removed in future versions 
WARNING: Extinfo objects are deprecated and will be removed in future versions 
WARNING: Extinfo objects are deprecated and will be removed in future versions 
WARNING: Extinfo objects are deprecated and will be removed in future versions 
Warning: failure_prediction_enabled is obsoleted and no longer has any effect in host type objects (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/cisco/ucsObjs/cisco_ucs_host.cfg', starting at line 1) 
Warning: failure_prediction_enabled is obsoleted and no longer has any effect in service type objects (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/cisco/ucsObjs/cisco_ucs_service.cfg', starting at line 1) 
Error: Contactgroup '"UCS admins"' is not defined anywhere 
Error: Could not add contactgroup '"UCS admins"' to host (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/cisco/ucsObjs/ucs03/ucs03_fi_A.cfg', starting on line 1) 
Error processing object config files! 


***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files... 

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'Whats New' section to find out what has changed. 

My contact groups:

contact groups.JPG

Any suggestions? Perhaps I have to move all the configuration files from the Nagios folder and import everything?

[ssax]

Please post a sanitized copy of /usr/local/nagios/etc/cisco/ucsObjs/ucs03/ucs03_fi_A.cfg

[CFT6Server]

Here is the cfg.

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define host {
             use                     cisco-ucs-host
            host_name               <IP>_fi_A
            alias                   ucs03_fi_A
            parents                 ucs03
            address                 ucs03
            hostgroups             ucs03
            }

[ssax]

That didn't show it but what I'm seeing is that contact group it's actually looking for is called "UCS admins" (with the quotes).

After you run the autodiscovery post that file, don't try to apply/verify/or anything in between. Just do a autodiscovery so it writes the configs, then paste the contents of the file. I will look through the plugin while you do that.

[ssax]

Actually, try to find where it's defined and post that so we can see if it's including the double-quotes in the definition:

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grep -R "UCS Admins" /usr/local/nagios/etc/cisco/ucsObjs

[CFT6Server]

Looks like the following:

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ucsObjs/cisco_ucs_host.cfg:contact_groups    "UCS admins"
ucsObjs/cisco_ucs_service.cfg:contact_groups    "UCS admins"

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# cat cisco_ucs_host.cfg
define host{
        name                           cisco-ucs-host    ; The name of this host template
        notifications_enabled           1       ; Host notifications are enabled
        event_handler_enabled           1       ; Host event handler is enabled
        flap_detection_enabled          1       ; Flap detection is enabled
        failure_prediction_enabled      1       ; Failure prediction is enabled
        process_perf_data               1       ; Process performance data
        retain_status_information       1       ; Retain status information across program restarts
        retain_nonstatus_information    1       ; Retain non-status information across program restarts
                check_command                   check-host-alive
                max_check_attempts              10
                notification_interval           0
                notification_period             24x7
                notification_options            d,u,r
contact_groups     "UCS admins"
        register                        0       ;
        }

These are all generated from the autodiscovery plugin.

[ssax]

Yeah, there should not be any quotes on those, they are an illegal character in Nagios.

Try changing all occurences of:

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"UCS admins"

To:

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UCS admins

Then try to verify

I'm still digging through the plugin to figure out where those quotes get added for a fix.

[ssax]

Also, what version of the plugin are you using?

[CFT6Server]

We are using version 0.9.3.

[ssax]

Did it verify properly once you changed them?