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Hi All,

I just want to confirm I am doing this properly. I am configuring Nagios with the plugins and NRPE on other nodes to do the following:

Monitor services, sent notifications and kick off scripts to repair or process the recovery.

I have the services monitoring set up for 2 (localhost and a remotehost), and notifications work properly for those services (To change the frequency, I change that in the definition of the host template I made for the box or override that in the settings made when actually configuring a host?) but to do some sort of event kick off, I currently have an event handler set up as an email script that I made

define command{
command_name email_me
command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" " **THIS IS AN EMAIL IN RESPONSE TO A SCRIPT KICKED OFF \n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Some script has been kicked off \nHost: $HOSTNAME$ To tell you that a script has been run\nState: $HOSTSTATE$ And I hope this works\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" [email protected]
}

^and that works for only a few services, but I have it in each of the define services I have set up for that box, but only a few come through...my understanding is that anything triggered will set off an event handler for anything returned back?

Also, how do I set it up so it runs some external script I have (some .sh) file or what not instead of one from Nagios?

Thanks

hellooperator,

Try enabling event logging and see if there are any clues as to why some of your services are not being kicked off.

Take a look at this page which talks about enableing logging for event handlers
http://nagios.manubulon.com/traduction/ ... dlers.html

To run an external script, your command would be a NRPE command which would execute a remote script on a given system.


Regards,

-Yancy

Is there anyway to add a button to the menu of the actions, where the status or status map button is so I can see if a node is down that I can initiate a script?

Also, if I have 5 computers on my cluster, and one goes down, I want to be able to have nagios dynamically change what it monitors on each node based on some file...so for example:

Monitor x y and z on Group A and then a b c on Group B

Group A:
Computer 1:

Group B:
Computer 2:
Computer 3:
Computer 4:
Computer 5:

If computer 1 is dead, some file will be updated on a machine and nagios can check that file when a script is kicked off and all of a sudden the landscape looks like this:

Monitor x y and z on Group A and then a b c on Group B

Group A:
Computer 2:

Group B:
Computer 3:
Computer 4:
Computer 5:


Is that possible?