[Nagios-devel] Recursive Service definitions

[Guest]

Here's on for crowd. I am using and loving the custom variables and have run
into an interesting idea. I have a host, a firewall, that has multiple
interfaces and multiple address per interface. I also have a hostgroup that
contains basic host checks for the os type. In the host group object file I
have a check for the first interface using a custom variable. What I would
like to do is have the hostgroup definition check all enumerated interface on
that host. I figure it can currently be done two ways:

1) Write a wrapper to grab all the environment vars for the interfaces and
loop through them. This would be a single service definition.
2) Define a service for each interface. ( Currently being done in the host
object file )

What I an wondering is would there be a way to dynamically generate the
service definitions for each interface?

Below are sanitized versions of my object files.

## begin host file billy.cfg
define host {
use all-hosts
host_name billy
alias Core Firewall
address 10.2.2.1
check_command check-host-alive
parents sw3548u1
_IF0 eth0
_IF0_MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00
_IF0_IP 24.0.0.2
_IF0_IP1 24.0.0.3
_IF0_IP2 24.0.0.4
_IF0_IP3 24.0.0.5
_IF0_IP4 24.0.0.6
_IF0_CONN Public
_IF1 eth1
_IF1_MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00
_IF1_IP 10.2.0.1
_IF1_CONN Private
_IF2 eth2
_IF2_MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00
_IF2_IP 10.2.1.1
_IF2_CONN WLAN
_IF3 eth3
_IF3_MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00
_IF3_IP 10.2.2.1
_IF3_CONN Server
}

define service {
use crit-service
host_name billy
service_description Interface - IF1
check_command check_ifopstat!$_HOSTIF1$
}

define service {
use crit-service
host_name billy
service_description Interface - IF2
check_command check_ifopstat!$_HOSTIF2$
}

define service {
use crit-service
host_name billy
service_description Interface - IF3
check_command check_ifopstat!$_HOSTIF3$
}
## End host object file

## Begin Host group object file hg-osDebian.cfg
define hostgroup{
hostgroup_name debian-servers
alias All Debian Servers
members billy
}
define service {
use crit-service
hostgroup_name debian-servers
service_description Interface - IF0
servicegroups baseos
check_command check_ifopstat!$_HOSTIF0$
}
## End Host group object file


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