programmatically check if Notifications are disabled

[brdr]

Hi Support team,

Is there a way to programmatically check from the back-end if Notifications have been disabled via front-end? We have more and more privileged users who at times maybe adding fair amount of new hosts and devices. When adding wholesale changes we sometimes disable notifications via front-end. When wholesale changes look good after configuration we then enable notifications (sometimes its forgotten to do this step) via front-end.

I'm familiar with nagios.cfg in /etc/ and .status file in /var/ directory. When I disable notification via front-end I can't tell from any of these files that notifications are off.

Thx

[tgriep]

You could use the GET system/status API to get the current status on the system and the notifications_enabled option will tell you if notifications have been globably disabled on the system.

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curl -XGET "https://127.0.0.1/nagiosxi/api/v1/system/status&notifications_enabled?apikey=j8hf9sss&pretty=1" -k

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{
    "instance_id": "1",
    "instance_name": "localhost",
    "status_update_time": "2017-07-17 14:58:01",
    "program_start_time": "2017-07-17 09:10:08",
    "program_run_time": "20875",
    "program_end_time": "0000-00-00 00:00:00",
    "is_currently_running": "1",
    "process_id": "15279",
    "daemon_mode": "1",
    "last_command_check": "1969-12-31 18:00:00",
    "last_log_rotation": "1969-12-31 18:00:00",
    "notifications_enabled": "0",
    "active_service_checks_enabled": "1",
    "passive_service_checks_enabled": "1",
    "active_host_checks_enabled": "1",
    "passive_host_checks_enabled": "1",
    "event_handlers_enabled": "1",
    "flap_detection_enabled": "0",
    "process_performance_data": "1",
    "obsess_over_hosts": "0",
    "obsess_over_services": "0",
    "modified_host_attributes": "15",
    "modified_service_attributes": "15",
    "global_host_event_handler": "xi_host_event_handler",
    "global_service_event_handler": "xi_service_event_handler"
}

To get more details on the API, login to the XI GUI and go to the Help > System Reference menu to get the API URL you would need for your server.

[tacolover101]

Hi Support team,

Is there a way to programmatically check from the back-end if Notifications have been disabled via front-end? We have more and more privileged users who at times maybe adding fair amount of new hosts and devices. When adding wholesale changes we sometimes disable notifications via front-end. When wholesale changes look good after configuration we then enable notifications (sometimes its forgotten to do this step) via front-end.

I'm familiar with nagios.cfg in /etc/ and .status file in /var/ directory. When I disable notification via front-end I can't tell from any of these files that notifications are off.

Thx

it may be worth leveraging your test license for this as you on board new servers / applications - disabling your notifications on a prod system as you mentioned seems like a disaster waiting to happen / miss.

i believe the status.dat updates when you turn them off / on, so you could probably come up with a one liner bash script to run on the XI host itself, to parse through /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat and look for notifications_enabled.

[tgriep]

Yes, searching the status.dat file would be another option.
If you search for this string

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enable_notifications

It will tell you if the notifications are disabled globally.
A Zero means it is disabled and a One means that it is enabled.

[brdr]

Hi tgriep,

The status.dat and retention.dat didn't change from 1 to 0 after disabling via front-end. This is the first place I went to look.

Your first option was spot on with regards to curl and API key. I just have to tighten up my script a little bit to notify the team when it is 0.

I can try to test license mentioned below too.

But, you can close this one.... thanks again!
u guys rock.

[bolson]

Closing this topic as resolved.

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