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https://lists.icinga.org/pipermail/icinga-users/attachments/20150728/a6bea150/attachment.html which is barely readable. I hope you don't mind if I resend as plain text ... regards Thorsten *********************** Hi @ all, I'm new to Icinga2 (and somewhat to monitoring in general). I've already consulted http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2 and while the documentation appears to be comprehensive, it is also very dense and -- at least to me -- there is some sort of howto-like-glue missing, to form the picture of all the bits an pieces :-) What I'm trying to do for starters is to monitor some Cisco switches, for instance port status. I downloaded https://labs.consol.de/nagios/check_nwc_health/ and I'm using this as check_command. My idea now was to generate templates for the various Cisco Switch models, e.g. the 2940 in my lab: =========================================================================== template Host "cisco-2940"{ /* "FastEthernet0/1" is the interface name, * and key name in service apply for later on */ vars.interfaces["FastEthernet0/1"] = { /* define all custom attributes with the * same name required for command parameters/arguments * in service apply (look into your CheckCommand definition) */ iftraffic_units = "f" iftraffic_mode = "interface-status" iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity } vars.interfaces["FastEthernet0/2"] = { iftraffic_units = "f" iftraffic_mode = "interface-status" iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity } vars.interfaces["FastEthernet0/3"] = { iftraffic_units = "f" iftraffic_mode = "interface-status" iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity } vars.interfaces["FastEthernet0/4"] = { iftraffic_units = "f" iftraffic_mode = "interface-status" iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity } vars.interfaces["FastEthernet0/5"] = { iftraffic_units = "f" iftraffic_mode = "interface-status" iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity } vars.interfaces["FastEthernet0/6"] = { iftraffic_units = "f" iftraffic_mode = "interface-status" iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity } vars.interfaces["FastEthernet0/7"] = { iftraffic_units = "f" iftraffic_mode = "interface-status" iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity } vars.interfaces["FastEthernet0/8"] = { iftraffic_units = "f" iftraffic_mode = "interface-status" iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity } vars.interfaces["GigabitEthernet0/1"] = { iftraffic_units = "g" iftraffic_mode = "interface-status" iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity } } =========================================================================== BTW: 'iftraffic_units = "f"' and 'iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity' are not used at the moment. then I use the "apply Service" example from http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/monitoring-basics#custom-attributes =========================================================================== * loop over the host.vars.interfaces dictionary * for (key => value in dict) means `interface_name` as key * and `interface_config` as value. Access config attributes * with the indexer (`.`) character. */ apply Service "if-" for (interface_name => interface_config in host.vars.interfaces) { import "generic-service" check_command = "check_nwc_health_2c" display_name = "IF-" + interface_name /* use the key as interface argument (no duplication of values in host.vars.interfaces) */ vars.check_nwc_health_name = interface_name /* set the check mode */ vars.check_nwc_health_mode = interface_config.iftraffic_mode /* map the custom attributes as command arguments */ vars.iftraffic_units = interface_config.iftraffic_units vars.iftraffic_community = interface_config.iftraffic_community /* the above can be achieved in a shorter fashion if the names inside host.vars.interfaces * are the _exact_ same as required as command parameter by the check command * definition. */ /* vars += interface_config*/ /* set the global constant if not explicitely * not provided by the `interfaces` dictionary on the host */ if (len(interface_config.iftraffic_community) == 0 || len(vars.iftraffic_community) == 0) { vars.iftraffic_community = IftrafficSnmpCommunity } /* Calculate some additional object attributes after populating the `vars` dictionary */ notes = "Interface check for " + interface_name + " (units: '" + interface_config.iftraffic_units + "') in VLAN '" + vars.vlan + "' with ' QoS '" + vars.qos + "'" notes_url = "http://foreman.company.com/hosts/"; + host.name action_url = "http://snmp.checker.company.com/"; + host.name + "/if-" + interface_name check_interval = 10 retry_interval = 10 } =========================================================================== The checkCommand looks as follow: =========================================================================== object CheckCommand "check_nwc_health_2c" { import "plugin-check-command" command = [ PluginDir + "/check_nwc_health" ] arguments = { "-H" = "$check_nwc_health_address$" "--protocol" = "$check_nwc_health_protocol$" "--community" = "$check_nwc_health_community$" "--mode" = "$check_nwc_health_mode$" "--name" = "$check_nwc_health_name$" } vars.check_nwc_health_address = "$address$" vars.check_nwc_health_protocol = "2c" vars.check_nwc_health_community = "private" } =========================================================================== Finally I have a config for my LAB switch: =========================================================================== object Host "lab_switch"{ import "generic-host" import "cisco-2940" vars.devicetype = "switch" vars.devicemanufacturer = "cisco" vars.deviceproduct = "2940" address = "172.30.100.36" } =========================================================================== Now as this works great for all ports, it also gives a CRITICAL messages for the unconnected ports. Since I'd like to apply this to all our switches, I'm looking for some way to specify in the 'object Host "lab_switch"' stanza which ports to monitor or which to ignore for each switch. I also had a look at check_nwc_health_2c in order to see if I could modify it to return "OK" if a switch port is administrativly down, but had no luck so far. My concrete questions would be: i) how do I add monitor / ignore directives to the Host object? ii) is this a feasible way of implementing the monitoring for switch ports or am I going totally in the wrong direction? iii) if this is a bad idea in general, could you point me to some examples on "how to do it right"? :-) iv) one OT question to the book "Das Nagios-/Icinga-Kochbuch" ISBN 978-3868993462 - does it cover Icinga1 or Icinga2? Any help / feedback would be greatly appreciated! kind regards, Thorsten _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users
