System Monitoring with OpenBSD - PhxBUG

Nagios - Defining a Service

So, our server 'canyon' is our department's guest FTP server. It runs FTP for people to share files, and SSH so we can manage it. So, we put it in two hostgroups ... dept_ftpservers and dept_sshservers.

Well, we have other servers that run FTP, and others that run SSH, and others that run both. Instead of defining a service object for every combination of servers and services, you can run checks based on groups ...

define service{
        use                             generic-service
        hostgroup_name                  dept_ftpservers
        service_description             FTP
        is_volatile                     0  
        check_period                    24x7
        max_check_attempts              4
        normal_check_interval           5
        retry_check_interval            1
        contact_groups                  glgtso
        notification_interval           960
        notification_period             24x7
        check_command                   check_ftp
        }