Automated Nagios Registering and Service Setup

[tsalata]

Hello,

I'm working on a project with Ansible and Nagios. The goal is to automated the registering of servers and services of all the servers in our Ansible cluster and have them report in Nagios XI. We are running Nagios XI 5.5.11 (offline install), on RHEL 7.5 (64 bit) minimal.

So far I have found the example ansible automation provided in the XI installation:

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vim /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/automation/ansible/ncpa_autoregister/

I have managed to register the servers themselves in Nagios via the rest endpoint:

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    - name: Register Host With XI
      uri:
        url: http://<hostname.domain.of.XI.host>/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/host?apikey=APIKEYHERE&pretty=1
        body: 'host_name={{ ansible_fqdn }}&address={{ ansible_default_ipv4.address }}&check_command=check_ping\!3000,80%\!5000,100%&max_check_attempts=2&check_period=24x7&contacts=nagiosadmin&notification_interval=5&notification_period=24x7&applyconfig=1'
        method: POST
        validate_certs: no
        timeout: 120

However, when I try and actual register services I am told that the service worked (CCM doesn't show a failure in the config, but the service doesn't show up in the Services UI):

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Successfully added <HOSTNAME.DOMAIN>:: Test Service: Apache to the system. Config applied, Nagios Core was restarted.

The rest call that I'm trying to make is:

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    - name: Register Service example
      uri:
        url: https://<hostname.domain.of.XI.host>/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/service?apikey=APIKEYHERE&pretty=1
        body: 'host_name={{ ansible_fqdn }}&address={{ ansible_default_ipv4.address }}&service_description=Testing&check_command=check_xi_service_status\-t COMMUNITY-STRING-HERE -P 5693 -M services -q service=NetworkManager,status=running%&check_interval=5&retry_interval=5&max_check_attempts=3&check_period=24x7&contacts=nagiosadmin&notification_interval=5&notification_period=24x7&applyconfig=1'
        method: POST
        validate_certs: no
        timeout: 120

I have a two immediate questions:
1. Am I missing something very easy with the check_xi_service_status module?
2. Should I be using a different module rather than the check_xi_service_status module?

Thank you!

[cdienger]

You would want to use the check_xi_ncpa command and &address isn't needed. Try this:

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    - name: Register Service example
      uri:
        url: https://<hostname.domain.of.XI.host>/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/service?apikey=APIKEYHERE&pretty=1
        body: 'host_name={{ ansible_fqdn }}&service_description=Testing&check_command=check_xi_ncpa\!-t COMMUNITY-STRING-HERE -P 5693 -M services -q service=NetworkManager,status=running%&check_interval=5&retry_interval=5&max_check_attempts=3&check_period=24x7&contacts=nagiosadmin&notification_interval=5&notification_period=24x7&applyconfig=1'
        method: POST
        validate_certs: no
        timeout: 120

[npolovenko]

@tsalata, Not sure if you've seen the video we have explaining how to use this Ansible script:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkwf5Rp3Kj4

Which version of XI are you running? Can you go to the Help menu, click on the Config Reference menu and try to submit a POST config/host command and see if the host gets added to the GUI.