Thanks for the input - the following seems to work: Turn off service notification:
wget --quiet -O - --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypassword --post-data 'cmd_typ=23&cmd_mod=2&host=myhost&service=myservice&btnSubmit=Commit' http://webserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi > /dev/null Turn on service notification: wget --quiet -O - --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypassword --post-data 'cmd_typ=22&cmd_mod=2&host=myhost&service=myservice&btnSubmit=Commit' http://webserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi > /dev/null I'd probably put the username and password in a ~nagios/.wgetrc file, so a resulting Solaris crontab entry might look like: # turn on notfications /usr/bin/su - nagios -c "/usr/local/bin/wget --quiet -O - --post-data 'cmd_typ=23&cmd_mod=2&host=myhost&service=myservice&btnSubmit=Commit' http://webserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi" > /dev/null 2>&1 I was also able to do this on Windows using GnuWin wget: C:\PROGRA~1\GnuWin32\bin>wget --quiet -O - --post-data "cmd_typ=23&cmd_mod=2&host=myhost&service=myservice&btnSubmit=Commit" http://webserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi (.wgetrc becomes c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc) -e ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank" <ra...@they.org> To: "Eric Pearce" <epea...@amberpoint.com> Cc: <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] sending external commands remotely > Here are 2 ways to do this: > > 1. Click thru the web interface the normal way you would (un)silence the > service(s)/servicegroup(s) in question but before submitting the form do a > View-Source and use the variables and values there to create yourself a > properly encoded URI and call it with wget. ex: > (silence) > wget -O - > http://nagios-server/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi?cmd_typ=23&cmd_mod=2&host=hostname&service=svcdesc > > > /dev/null > (unsilence) > wget -O - > http://nagios-server/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi?cmd_typ=22&cmd_mod=2&host=hostname&service=svcdesc > > > /dev/null > > I haven't read thru the source or tried these examples so I don't know if > you also need to include "&btnSubmit=Commit" to the URI. Or perhaps it > won't work at all as a GET instead of a POST. > > > 2. Write a CGI that accepts host, service, and silence/unsilence > variables. Feed the results directly to the Nagios command pipe > (/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd). Once you've verified your input args, > feed them to the pipe like: > > my $time = time(); > open(CMD,">>/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd"); > print CMD "[$time] DISABLE_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS;hostname;servicename\n"; > close(CMD); > > Again, I haven't tested any of this, but it oughtta work in theory. > > -f > > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Eric Pearce wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:48:55 -0700 >> From: Eric Pearce <epea...@amberpoint.com> >> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [Nagios-users] sending external commands remotely >> >> >> I'd like to be able to remotely turn off/turn on service/host checks. For >> example, a remote >> machine could turn off a service check while running a backup and turn it >> back on after it is >> done. Ideally, this is a simple perl script, wrapper for 'wget', batch >> file, etc that could run >> on Unix or Windows (maybe using SSL for securing the password?). I assume >> it would talk >> directly to cgi on the nagios server. I've seen some others asking for >> something similar, but >> no definitive replies. My understanding of NSCA is that is simply for >> collecting passive >> information, and can't actually change things, right? >> >> Yes, I could schedule downtime via Nagios, but the downtime is of >> variable length, the so the >> exact backup window is not known in advance. The machine doing the actual >> backup "knows >> best" when turn monitoring on and off. NFS mounting the nagios command >> file is not an >> option. I did see the old remote_ctl.pl script on nagiosexchange but I >> don't want to >> do anything non-standard on the nagios server if possible. I understand >> that I could use ssh to >> run local commands on nagios server, but I'm looking for something more >> elegant. >> >> My setup is Linux server running Nagios 3.0.6 and 1.4.13 plugins >> monitoring Linux, Solaris and >> Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 hosts. >> >> Thanks >> -e >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null