Nagios, 2nd Edition

15.2 Defining OCSP/OCHP Commands

Defining the two commands with which the noncentral instances send their results to the Nagios main server in most cases involves scripts that are based on send_nsca (see also the example in 14.4 Sending Test Results to the Server). For services, such a script would look like the following one, in this case called submit_service_check:

#!/bin/bash
# Script submit_service_check

PRINTF="/usr/bin/printf"
CMD="/usr/local/bin/send_nsca"
CFG="/etc/nagios/send_nsca.cfg"
HOST=$1
SRV=$2
RESULT=$3
OUTPUT=$4

$PRINTF "%b" "$HOST\t$SRV\t$RESULT\t$OUTPUT\n" | $CMD -H nagios -c $CFG

When run, the command expects four parameters on the command line in the correct order: the host monitored, the service name, the return value for ...