Security has never been a concern cause the users allowed to modify those 
parameters have access to the monitoring console. It's a closed environment. 

About open sourcing our software it's not viable. It does thousands of things 
besides that and closely related to our organization so I doubt it's of any 
value for the community. It's just a bunch of webforms linked to an oracle 
database. Nothing interesting. 

> El 30/05/2014, a las 14:54, Michael Friedrich <[email protected]> 
> escribió:
> 
>> On 30.05.2014 14:43, Jorge Ferrando wrote:
>> I mean we have a self developed software where we asign monitoring to
>> some hosts and then we asign services to those hosts, then there's a
>> field to enter custom parameters like -u whatever -h whatever2 and we
>> have many of those fields, so it's not easy to change that. This
>> information has been filled by many different users.
> 
> Well, from a security point of view it hurts. Probably your exporter must 
> split the "-u foo" into vars.argname = "-u", vars.argvalue = "foo" and pass 
> that accordingly.
> 
> Although I would reconsider that strategy, and only allow users to define 
> optional values for a defined set of argument parameters. If then the command 
> arguments are used they remain all optional by default. If you users don't 
> add a value for "-u" then, Icinga 2 will omit the argument on execution and 
> macro evaluation. That is different from Nagios, and imho one of those things 
> which make Icinga 2 really better, having one command definition for 
> everything.
> 
> And yes, probably not an easy change, but to be honest - I wouldn't let my 
> users define the entire arguments and values on their own, but rather give 
> them a list of parameters where they may add their required optional values. 
> Probably a good idea to start over with your web interface and make it Icinga 
> 2 ready then too. Any chance to open source it for the community?
> 
> 
>> 
>> It's a big nagios installation, we are monitoring around 3000 hosts and
>> 3000 services so that's not easy to change or to adapt to icinga2 in an
>> automated mode.
> 
> Nothing is easy, but if you really want to migrate, you'll sure make it 
> happen. And it's even better for your strategy to adopt the changes made in 
> Icinga 2 now, than to first migrate to Icinga 1.x and then look for possible 
> upgrade paths.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Michael Friedrich
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>    On 30.05.2014 14:22, Jorge Ferrando wrote:
>> 
>>        It's just an example but we have hundreds of other services
>>        different
>>        from nrpe stored in a database cause we're using nagios so far.
>> 
>> 
>>    What kind of backend? I'm in the middle of fixing the LConf export,
>>    plus the Migration Script. But in fact your export $tool should know
>>    about that changed logic.
>> 
>>    If you're looking for the simple way of converting the old $ARG1$
>>    macros, try this snippet
>> 
>>    
>> http://git.netways.org/lconf/__lconf/blobs/next/src/generate.__pm.in#line1086
>>    
>> <http://git.netways.org/lconf/lconf/blobs/next/src/generate.pm.in#line1086>
>> 
>>    You can still define the vars.ARG1 = "foo" method on services, but
>>    it's ugly and unreadable.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>        I'm just
>>        trying to find a way to migrate to icinga2 with no pain :)
>> 
>> 
>>    Depends. Every customization is a pain. But change is necessary.
>>    There's too much crap inherited from Nagios' history slowing down
>>    the knowledge and maintainability of these tools.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>        There's no other workaround for it?
>> 
>> 
>>    Your exporter could use the ARGn vars, but also needs to take care
>>    about changed runtime macros. I've implemented that few hours ago
>>    for LConf here -
>>    
>> http://git.netways.org/lconf/__lconf/commit/__a9654e8067c5dbb855b0d5de5caebf__f0e2338016
>>    
>> <http://git.netways.org/lconf/lconf/commit/a9654e8067c5dbb855b0d5de5caebff0e2338016>
>> 
>>    Once I am done with LConf and a customers project, I'll go back to
>>    https://dev.icinga.org/issues/__5929
>>    <https://dev.icinga.org/issues/5929>
>> 
>>    If you could share some code of yours, it's probably more easy to help.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>        On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Michael Friedrich
>>        <[email protected]
>>        <mailto:[email protected]>
>>        <mailto:michael.friedrich@__gmail.com
>>        <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>> 
>>             On 30.05.2014 14:03, Jorge Ferrando wrote:
>> 
>>                 Hello
>> 
>>                 I'm using icinga 2 and I have some command checks with
>>                 arguments, for
>>                 instance:
>> 
>>                 object CheckCommand "check_nrpe"{
>>                     import "plugin-check-command"
>>                     command = PluginDir + "/check_nrpe -H
>>        $host.address$ $args$"
>> 
>>                     vars.args =""
>>                 }
>> 
>>                 object Service "arecibo - Chequeo Disco 2 (NRPE)" {
>>                     import "generic-service"
>>                     host_name     = "arecibo"
>>                     check_command = "check_nrpe"
>> 
>>                     vars.args     = "-c check_disk2"
>>                 }
>> 
>>                 Problem is icinga2 is adding quotes around variable
>>        substitution
>>                 and it
>>                 makes command to fail:
>> 
>>                 # /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_____nrpe -H
>>        '158.42.250.101' '-c
>> 
>>                 check_disk2'
>> 
>>                 NRPE: Command ' check_disk2' not defined
>> 
>>                 # /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_____nrpe -H
>>        '158.42.250.101' -c
>> 
>>                 check_disk2
>> 
>>                 DISK OK - free space: /var/log/nagios3 7469 MB (19%
>>        inode=99%);|
>>                 /var/log/nagios3=30799MB;____40237;40227;0;40317
>> 
>> 
>>                 Is there any way to solve this or to remove those
>>        quotes from
>>                 checks??
>> 
>> 
>>             That's right. Arguments are automatically shell escaped.
>>        You should
>>             rather fix your Check Command to only pass argument values,
>>        but not
>>             entire strings just as lazy "args". That's common and wrong
>>        1.x /
>>             Nagios thinking.
>> 
>>             Icinga 2 already ships the "nrpe" command.
>>        http://docs.icinga.org/____icinga2/snapshot/chapter-6.____html#nrpe
>>        <http://docs.icinga.org/__icinga2/snapshot/chapter-6.__html#nrpe>
>> 
>> 
>>        <http://docs.icinga.org/__icinga2/snapshot/chapter-6.__html#nrpe
>>        <http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/snapshot/chapter-6.html#nrpe>>
>> 
>>             Use that to define your service check
>> 
>> 
>>             object Service "arecibo - Chequeo Disco 2 (NRPE)" {
>>                import "generic-service"
>>                host_name     = "arecibo"
>>                check_command = "nrpe"
>> 
>>                vars.nrpe_command = "check_disk2"
>>             }
>> 
>>             If you want, add the "vars.nrpe_address = $address$" line, but
>>             that's already the default in the check command definition
>>        shipped
>>             with Icinga 2.
>> 
>>             I've created a ticket to update the documentation to make
>>        it more
>>             reasonable what to do.
>> 
>>        https://dev.icinga.org/issues/____6364
>>        <https://dev.icinga.org/issues/__6364>
>> 
>>             <https://dev.icinga.org/__issues/6364
>>        <https://dev.icinga.org/issues/6364>>
>> 
>>             best regards,
>>             Michael
>> 
>> 
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