Re: [Nagios-users] Why are there "commands"?

2009-09-01 Thread 劉岳泓
If you code relevant checking command in each service, Nagios should register every single command in system memory. But by using command "templates", Nagios needs only register command definitions "once" and parameters for each service, this is more memory efficient. David Dyer-Bennet 提到: > I

Re: [Nagios-users] Why are there "commands"?

2009-08-28 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Fri, August 28, 2009 13:26, Marc Powell wrote: > > On Aug 28, 2009, at 12:18 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> I don't really understand the purpose / utility of the "command" >> level of >> abstraction in Nagios configuration. (2.10; we're still on Centos >> 4.7). >> >> To define a new servic

Re: [Nagios-users] Why are there "commands"?

2009-08-28 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Fri, August 28, 2009 12:57, andr...@one.net wrote: > Why not create more generic command definitions and pass the specific arguments along to the commands in your service definitions? > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#command Aha! That's precisely what I would prefe

Re: [Nagios-users] Why are there "commands"?

2009-08-28 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/28 David Dyer-Bennet : > I don't really understand the purpose / utility of the "command" level of > abstraction in Nagios configuration.  (2.10; we're still on Centos 4.7). If you use some of the plugins with quite complex arguments (check_snmp_storage.pl from http://manubulon.com comes t

Re: [Nagios-users] Why are there "commands"?

2009-08-28 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 28, 2009, at 12:18 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I don't really understand the purpose / utility of the "command" > level of > abstraction in Nagios configuration. (2.10; we're still on Centos > 4.7). > > To define a new service to check particular Windows web services we've > writte

Re: [Nagios-users] Why are there "commands"?

2009-08-28 Thread andrew2
Why not create more generic command definitions and pass the specific arguments along to the commands in your service definitions? http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#command Andrew -Original Message- From: David Dyer-Bennet [mailto:d...@dd-b.net] I don't really u

Re: [Nagios-users] Why are there "commands"?

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Gius
It allows you to have a single "command" that may have variable results depending on which "service" uses it. IE, you can have one command, check_disk which is defined with command check_disk -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -H $HOSTADDRESS$ and then two services, "Check disk fileserver" and "check disk web

Re: [Nagios-users] Why are there "commands"?

2009-08-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/28/2009 01:18 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I don't really understand the purpose / utility of the "command" level of > abstraction in Nagios configuration. (2.10; we're still on Centos 4.7). > > To define a new service to check particular Windows web services we've > written, I define a s

[Nagios-users] Why are there "commands"?

2009-08-28 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
I don't really understand the purpose / utility of the "command" level of abstraction in Nagios configuration. (2.10; we're still on Centos 4.7). To define a new service to check particular Windows web services we've written, I define a service, and then it has to refer to a command, and over in