New Ideas : Nagios Open Innovation Network

Easy Editing and Deletion

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:38:07 PST

I wish it were easy to edit and delete hosts and services in Nagios. All I wanted to do was rename some of the hosts and now because I did, they are unable to be synced. Even if I delete them fully in configuration to start over, they persist. This is a major bug and is totally unacceptable. Even small time freeware monitors can do this correctly with ease.

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send alerts of Oracle database performance

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:07:07 PST

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send alerts of Oracle database performance

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Monitoring flash media live encoder / flash live stream at all

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:06:55 PST

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Monitoring flash media live encoder / flash live stream at all

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Test

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:17:07 PST

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Test

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Threaded Email Alerts

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:46:54 PST

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I would like to see the ability for email alerts to be threaded so that one could at a glance through a flurry of unrelated alerts, which services have returned to normal (ie: the last message in the thread for a service is a message with an OK in the subject line).

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USER_PLUGIN_DIR instead of USER1

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:59:47 PST

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I'd like it if anything starting with "USER" would be treated as a user variable instead of just USER1..USER32. The numbered variables are cryptic; it's hard to remember which is which and easy to end up using a password to find a plugin script. Also, it makes the commands overly dependent on a specific resource.cfg setup. With meaningful names, it would be easy to see what a given command requires, and it would be possible to copy commands between installations without needing to renumber all the user variables.

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Match custom variables in defines

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:55:13 PST

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Right now, a service definition can use host_name or hostgroup_name to apply the service check to a particular host or hostgroup. I would like to be able to apply a service to any host (or hostgroup) that has some custom attribute, so that it is easier to specify which service to check on which host.

The requested feature here could be used in many different ways, but here's a specific example of how I was thinking of using it.

1. Create a host template named eg 'app_server'
2. Within that host template, set a custom variable '_TYPE' to 'appserver'
3. In your service define, do 'custom_match HOST_TYPE appserver' in place of 'host_name' or 'hostgroup_name'.

Or alternatively, use a 'hostgroup_name' option in the service define, but then define your hostgroup using the 'custom_match HOST_TYPE appserver' technique instead of using the 'members' option to enumerate them.

Now, whenever you create a new host that happens to be an "app server", whatever that might mean, inherit from the 'app_server' template. The new host will automatically have the appropriate service checks associated with it.

I don't know if this is actually the right way to do it. I am in my very early days of using Nagios, and it just seems weird to me that you have to specify everything directly (host endoftheworld is named endoftheworld and service anyonestillalive should apply to hosts endoftheworld,aftertheplague,alieninvasion. service buildingsstanding should apply to hosts endoftheworld,aftertheplague,alieninvasion. etc.) I really want a layer of indirection -- tag host endoftheworld with 'badstuffhappened', then associate relevant checks with that tag. hostgroups are close, but they show up in the UI, might confuse people when they overlap, and still require you to enumerate all of the hosts in the group rather than having the hosts self-identify.

Maybe there's some way to do this that I'm missing?

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Add a "Configuration" category to ideas.nagios.org

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:46:54 PST

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Quite a few of the ideas in other categories, especially the overloaded Nagios "Core", could be moved here.

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Monitoring Simplesamlphp

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:09:05 PST

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Monitoring Simplesamlphp

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Monitoring EoMPLS

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:15:48 PST

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Monitoring Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, etc. Ethernet over MPLS

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