We have a nagios setup that uses inheritance to a larger degree than I am used to. I’ve read the documentation at:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html
But I still can’t get my head around how to accomplish my goal.
I have server/host that has notified for procs warning. I investigated this and it is a known bug and safely ignored for this specific server. Ideally I’d like to increase the warning/critical points for the service definition for just this host; but I’m also comfortable just not using this service check until a patch for the current problem is issued. Disabling via the web interface is not an acceptable option for my mangers.
Service definition:
define service{
use unix-agent-service
hostgroup_name linux-servers
service_description Agent: Total Processes
check_command check_nrpe!check_total_procs
}
The host definition:
define host{
use linux-server
host_name unixlab
alias Unix Lab
address PRIVATE
}
Group/server Definition:
define host{
name linux-server
use generic-host
alias Linux server
hostgroups linux-servers
register 0
}
The host inherits all the services defined in the hostgroup linux-servers. I’ve tried giving the service check a name and then setting that name to null in the host definition, but I think this syntax is wrong and/or I’m not understanding that part of inheritance:
define service{
**name agent-total-processes**
use unix-agent-service
hostgroup_name linux-servers
service_description Agent: Total Processes
check_command check_nrpe!check_total_procs
}
The host definition:
define host{
use linux-server
host_name unixlab
alias Unix Lab
address PRIVATE
**agent-total-processes null**
}
I’m sure I’m missing something obvious… based on my reading of inheritance this should be possible but I’m not able to wrap my head around it.
Thoughts?