On 10.01.2012 21:14, Jake Xu wrote:
Just attached Andreas' response from another thread.
@Dan, I've taken a look at Multisite. It seems to have some crazy
batch commands/comments which are exactly what I am looking for. I
tried it a bit but ended up getting segfault from apache when I
accessed the webpage localhost/check_mk/. It's probably because I have
too many sites running on my test box. Will try again later. Thanks
for the recommendation.
multsite requires mk_livestatus as core neb module. keep that in mind
when installing it. ah well, and it's python. that could be the problem
on your apache. best will be to debug it on the logs and report back to
developers.
@Michael, Icinga would be good if I started from sratch. It is pain
for me to migrate everything to Icinga though because the default file
structure is different and the web ui is not as straightforward as
Nagios core. Thanks for showing me the OMD, didn't aware of it at all.
migration is not really painful when you know the right docs to read (i
won't post them here, see the official docs). that comes to mind when
reading omd as well where the file structures remains even more
different (site based), but that's one of those things being traversed
into a benefit of keeping different sites for testing and having one as
production setup - and doing other upgrade stuff.
icinga webui - there are 2 of them (new idoutils based and old
classicui, having 2 developer teams on the project). when comparing
icinga's classic ui to nagios classic ui, compound commands is one of
those things people are asking a lot about (mostly for acknowledging
problems, but also to schedule checks or downtimes). to be honest, i
couldn't work with nagios classic ui again if someone would pin me other
there. but that's just my humble opinion and not really liked ;)
as remarked by andreas, nagios developers do not seem to have the
intention to feature enhance the classic ui so it will be a dead end
requesting features like compound commands. patching that is not really
funny, but you can meet rune or ricardo on irc.freenode.net and ask by
yourself ;-)
generally speaking you should give the omd setup a test install and then
decide what to do. if you now stick with nagios core 3.2.3 and wait for
a 3.4.x stable release until you test various other guis and tools,
wouldn't make much difference then not doing it ;-)
@Andreas, I am defining "large number of hosts" as >= one thousand,
and each host is likely to have +/- 10 services, so you get the idea
:) I agree with you that Thruk doesn't look as good as others, so I am
looking into Check_MK Multisite as it has some pretty useful
commands/shortcuts/features. I don't use the report feature that much,
so Multisite should be good enough. Yeah, hacking the cgi is really
undesirable. I will just try to adapt anohter UI like Multisite.
even if thruk doesn't look that good, it is feature rich and sven is a
good developer responding fast to ideas and demands. and from what i
have seen, you can use other templates as well - perl catalyst power.
someone might have wanted a mindmap or an integrated config editor as
well - he added that to thruk. irc or the nagios portal might be the
best address to discuss such topics though.
kind regards,
michael
Thanks for all the response!
Jake
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Andreas Ericsson <a...@op5.se
<mailto:a...@op5.se>> wrote:
On 01/09/2012 08:53 PM, Jake Xu wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>> From time to time, I need to restart or reschedule all services
to verify
> that some new checks or new hosts are working properly. Is there
any easy
> way to do that? I have a large number of hosts and services, so
it would be
> tedious to click through a bunch of links via the web interface.
Using
> external command is not very feasible as well because I would
have to have
> all host names and service names for the command line commands.
>
> I have seen a pretty good idea on Icinga, a Nagios fork, for
this purpose.
> It has a checkbox associated with each service check and a
select-all
> checkbox to select all checkboxes. It would be useful to have
that on the
> Nagios Core, but AFAIK there isn't any.
>
Pretty much all other UI's but the basic one has this capability.
Speedwise,
I'd imagine Thruk and Multisite would suit you very well. It sort
of depends
on how you define "large number of hosts and services" though.
Most UI's
scale just fine to a couple of thousand hosts, although certain
parts of it
might suck donkey balls with huge networks. Multisite suffers when
creating
reports, for example, but is crazy fast at showing current status.
Thruk is
faster at both (last time I checked), but it's, imo, pretty ugly
(sorry Sven)
and lacks a bunch of boss-bling type features that other UI's have.
YMMV.
As for adding that capability to the "default" ui; That's not
going to happen
unless someone provides a patch for it. None of the maintainers
have any
interest in adding features to the cgi, so they're there simply as
a fallback
and will most likely be removed some time in the future in favour
of a ui
written in some more easily hackable language.
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On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:17 PM, <andrew.f...@wellsfargo.com
<mailto:andrew.f...@wellsfargo.com>> wrote:
I usually combine the classic external command scripts with a
smidge of perl to grab the members of the hostgroup that I want to
trigger something for.
If you give the following script a hostgroup name, it will grab
the members from objects.cache:
#!/usr/local/nagios/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my $hostgroup = $ARGV[0];
# here’s the spot where I should be checking that $hostgroup is
defined…
open my $objects,'<','/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache' or die
"Failure opening objects file: $!\n";
$/ = '}';
while (<$objects>) {
if (/hostgroup_name\s+($hostgroup)/gs) {
/members\s+(\S+)/gs;
my $members = $1;
my @members = split /,/,$members;
for my $member (@members) {
print "$member\n";
}
}
}
close $objects;
When you run that you get a list that you can feed to your
external command script.
Here’s the idea in shell on the command line:
bash# for x in `get_hostgroup_members big_switches`;do
trigger_service_script $x;done
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*From:*Michael Friedrich [mailto:michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at
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*Sent:* Monday, January 09, 2012 2:54 PM
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*Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all
services at once
On 09.01.2012 20:53, Jake Xu wrote:
Hi everyone,
From time to time, I need to restart or reschedule all services to
verify that some new checks or new hosts are working properly. Is
there any easy way to do that? I have a large number of hosts and
services, so it would be tedious to click through a bunch of links
via the web interface. Using external command is not very feasible
as well because I would have to have all host names and service
names for the command line commands.
I have seen a pretty good idea on Icinga, a Nagios fork, for this
purpose. It has a checkbox associated with each service check and
a select-all checkbox to select all checkboxes.
hehe. you just made ricardo and rune proud :-))
It would be useful to have that on the Nagios Core, but AFAIK
there isn't any.
for the problem itsself - try OMD. nagios, icinga, shinken as core
available whilst the gui decision is up to you.
http://omdistro.org
Thanks in advance,
Jake
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