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Nagios Core Administration Cookbook Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Tom Ryder
Book Image

Nagios Core Administration Cookbook Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Tom Ryder

Overview of this book

Nagios Core is an open source monitoring framework suitable for any network that ensures both internal and customer-facing services are running correctly and manages notification and reporting behavior to diagnose and fix outages promptly. It allows very fine configuration of exactly when, where, what, and how to check network services to meet both the uptime goals of your network and systems team and the needs of your users. This book shows system and network administrators how to use Nagios Core to its fullest as a monitoring framework for checks on any kind of network services, from the smallest home network to much larger production multi-site services. You will discover that Nagios Core is capable of doing much more than pinging a host or to see whether websites respond. The recipes in this book will demonstrate how to leverage Nagios Core's advanced configuration, scripting hooks, reports, data retrieval, and extensibility to integrate it with your existing systems, and to make it the rock-solid center of your network monitoring world.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Nagios Core Administration Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using another object's directives in a host or service check


In some cases where checks of hosts or services depend on each other, we may need to use information in a definition for check_command that's dependent on a property of another host or service. In these cases, you may end up with an unnecessary duplication of this information, so if it changes in one place, the check may break if it's not changed in another. These situations can be hard to remember and can cause confusing errors when forgotten; so, ideally, we would want our configuration to be more dynamic so that we only have to change such pieces of information in one place.

For example, to check whether two BGP routing peers are correctly established and that they exchange routes via SNMP, we would need the value of address of the other one so that for each of them, we know which peer to check. Suppose we have these two hosts configured based on a bgp-router template; in this case, we would execute the following code:

define...