Changing services states on host event handler?

Nagios
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I everyone,

after finding how to disable services check when host is down (thx to Strides). I would like to manually change services states of a host when the host going down or unreachable.

Example :

If Host A is DOWN, services check of this host is disabled and each services of host A change state to UNKNOWN. Then, when host A change state to UP, services check are enabled and services states are changed to OK.

I have check external command, it seems that there is no command to change state and I don’t have access on services macro when passing trough host event handler.

Anyone know a good solution for that ?

Thx in advance.

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nagios.org/developerinfo/ext … and_id=114
this should answer your question, as you already know about external commands :slight_smile:

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Thx Loose, I don’t know how I didn’t notice this command !lol

Just need to check wish macro available in the host event handler, would give list of of service description for the host. :roll:

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Hi Eryas

If you can find the macro to do that, please let us know what it is :slight_smile:

I ended up resorting to using a “wget” statement to get me a list of services for a particular host by grepping and sedding them out of the host’s status.cgi webpage, maybe you can make use of it too…

wget --quiet --output-document=- --http-user=NAGIOSUSER --http-password=NAGIOSPASSWORD “http://127.0.0.1/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?host=HOSTNAME” | grep “HREF='extinfo.cgi?type=2&host=HOSTNAME&service=”| sed -e :a -e ‘s/<^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba’

it works a treat for me…

[root@localhost ~]# wget --quiet --output-document=- --http-user=******** --http-password=######## "http://127.0.0.1/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?host=localhost" | grep "HREF='extinfo.cgi?type=2&host=localhost&service="| sed -e :a -e 's/<^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba' Current Load Current Users HTTP PING Root Partition SMS3 Processes - smsd SSH Swap Percent Usage Swap Usage Total Processes Var Partition [root@localhost ~]#

HTH

/S

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Thx for the solution :slight_smile:

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Not a bad solution, but I’ve developed my own PHP interface. So I’m not using CGI anymore.

Need to find other way to get these services description

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well if your php interface doesn’t give you a similar view of the status of all services running on a host then that is certainly a show stopper. Another way you could do it would be to script something that would parse status.dat and pull out the services relating to the appropriate host in the “servicestatus {” segments… I tried to do something similar with variable success but finally gave up once I worked out how to wget the same thing in a one-liner…

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Yeah, I’ve thought about searching every services for the host in my SQLite database (I have changed status.dat to a sqlite database).

Not the most fast way, but I think it’s the only way !lol