API to enable services

[mon-team]

Dear all,
is it possible to enable via API a service, yet configured, but actually in disabled state?
I didn't find anything..

Regards
Francesco

[benjaminsmith]

Hi Francesco,

It looks like that is not possible from the API ( likely due to dependencies when deactivating hosts or services). If you want to put the host and service in a disabled state, you can simply turn off active or passive checks.

For example, to turn off active checks for a service:

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curl -XPUT "http://<ip address>/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/service/localhost/PING?apikey=<key here>&pretty=1&active_checks_enabled=0&applyconfig=1"

Let me know if that would meet your requirements.

[benjaminsmith]

Hi Francesco,

Just learned that we do have a feature request submitted for activating and deactivating hosts/services from the API. While this has been submitted, the decision to implement the enhancement is up to the development team.

[mon-team]

Hi Benjamin,
thanks for your reply. Yes, you are right, i could put in 'off' the active and passive field.. but this is more a workaround.
Instead my need is to enable hosts and services which are disabled.

This is quite important if you are trying to automate Nagios XI.
I'll wait the feature to be developed ( I hope ).

By the way, actually there is not a specific API to know if a service is enabled or disabled. I think the two API should be developed togheter in order to be really useful.
In particular, at the moment if you ask the configuration for an active service you get back a response. The problem is that if you ask for a service that is disable or which does not exist the response is very similar (i found a workaround for services but not for hosts). So basically it's impossible to understand if a service or host is simply disabled or does not exist.
This feature also in very important if your goal is automation.
I hope my feedback could help.

Francesco

[benjaminsmith]

Hi Francesco,

Appreciate the feedback and I've updated the FR request with your input. While I don't know the final specifications of the feature, the good news is that this has been approved for the next minor release of Nagios XI.

You can follow the product roadmap on this page.

https://www.nagios.com/roadmaps/

[mon-team]

Thanks,
i'll try immediately the minor release when it'll become available, thanks!

[benjaminsmith]

Hello,

Your welcome. I'll go ahead and close this thread. If you have any new questions, please feel free to open another.