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Hello,

Is there a way to make bulk changes in order to add event handlers to a group of hosts/services? Apart from a lot of sed, that is.

Thanks as always,

-- Mike Beebe

Do you have Nagios Enterprise add-on? If so, then you have the Bulk Change Tool in the Core Config Manager that will allow you to enable/disable the event handler for multiple services. It does not, however, let you specify what the event handler command is (this should be a feature request!)

The best thing you can do is to make a new service template that has the correct event handler information and then use the bulk change tool to apply the service template to multiple services. Then you've effectively added a layer of abstraction that does what you want.

But it still requires the bulk change tool. Otherwise, it's export/modify/import at the Nagios Core config file level.

Thanks Eric! I'll put in a feature request for the setting the event handler command in the Bulk Mods Tool.

@mbeebe, Just let us know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks, Ben and Eloyd;

Will Global Event Handlers do what I want? I need to add an event handler to every host and service I'm monitoring.

-- Mike Beebe

Global Event Handlers would do what you want if you want to add the same event handler to ALL hosts/services, but it cannot handle different handlers per host/service.

You could program logic into a global event handler that did different sub tasks for different services though.

eloyd wrote:You could program logic into a global event handler that did different sub tasks for different services though.

true

Can I please request this thread not be locked yet? I will have some other questions, but time prohibits me from asking them now.

Thanks,

-- Mike Beebe

Can I please request this thread not be locked yet? I will have some other questions, but time prohibits me from asking them now.

No problem. We'll keep it open.

Hello,

You may close this thread now as we're going to come at this from a different direction.

-- Mike Beebe