Optional ARGs

Nagios Nagios Configuration support
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Hi guys,

Is there a way to get nagios to choose between $USERn$ and $ARGn$ based on if $ARGn$ is defined?

I’m trying to use check_http to check a bunch of URLs and some of them need to have user-agent or size returned or follow redirects set and I would like to use something like:

command_line $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u $ARG1$ -m $ARG2$ -f $ARG3$ -A $ARG4$

and use something like this on my checks…

check_http!/!1000!!Mozilla
check_http!/!!follow!
check_http!/!!!

I tried to define $ARG2$ - $ARG4$ in resources.cfg with the idea that if it’s set it get overridden but it doesn’t work

Is there like an optional syntax to choose which ever is defined, something like

command_line $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u $ARG1$ -m $USER2$|$ARG2$] -f $USER3$|$ARG3$] -A $USER4$|$ARG4$]

2

define different check_http_something commands, with different arguments and use them as needed.

3

Yea, I ended up doing that, just a pain cause I have to make a bunch of checks for each of the possible combinations.