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Hello,

Is there a way to add service check through command line in NagiosXI?

Need to add below service check in around 300 servers and it is little hard to do through GUI.

COMMAND: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H xxxx.domain.com -t 30 -c CheckMEM -a MaxWarn=80% MaxCrit=90% ShowAll=long type=physical

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but you can create a configuration file that contains whatever you need and move it to /usr/local/nagiosxi/import then: Nagios will import that into the XI configuration.

Or you can use the process outlined in this document to create hosts/services
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... gement.pdf

sureshkraj2012 wrote:Hello,

Is there a way to add service check through command line in NagiosXI?

Need to add below service check in around 300 servers and it is little hard to do through GUI.

COMMAND: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H xxxx.domain.com -t 30 -c CheckMEM -a MaxWarn=80% MaxCrit=90% ShowAll=long type=physical

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

If I am reading this correctly... These solutions would work

1. Create a hostgroup with the 300 servers and then associate your service check to the hostgroup. {recommended}
2. Create flat files for these configurations and store them in /usr/local/nagios/etc/static
3. Create flat files and import everything over using the above methodology.

I'm a big proponent of keeping things simple which is why I would go with option 1 personally.

Cheers

technick wrote:If I am reading this correctly... These solutions would work

1. Create a hostgroup with the 300 servers and then associate your service check to the hostgroup. {recommended}
2. Create flat files for these configurations and store them in /usr/local/nagios/etc/static
3. Create flat files and import everything over using the above methodology.

I'm a big proponent of keeping things simple which is why I would go with option 1 personally.

Cheers

Correct.

Then anytime you add a host to the hostgroup they will automatically get all the services that have this hostgroup associated.

This is really the ideal setup if you always monitor the same items on a group of servers and they all have the same settings (thresholds, etc).

this is something to think about, because changing the warning/critical threshold on the service definition, will change it for ALL of the hosts. In many cases this is desirable, in some it is not...

Thank you for your valuable solutions!
I would like to append this (checkMEM) service check via command line along with other service check (CPU, disk etc..,) that are already configured.

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H xxxx.domain.com -t 30 -c CheckMEM -a MaxWarn=80% MaxCrit=90% ShowAll=long type=physical

Also, could you please elaborate on flat file and it would be great if example provided?

Creation and use of the static flat config files in XI is covered here:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... _Files.pdf

For some examples please take a look at the "How to monitor" sections here:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/toc.html

You can also see all of the flat config file versions of what you have in your XI server's database for hosts and services in: