Nagios: Disable notifications from command line on Windows/Linux

Question

I've been using Joomla 1.6 locally on my computer. Everything's been working fine. I uploaded the web files to the company's server and all of a sudden I'm getting the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_file() in...

I've checked several online communities and some people are saying that simplexml should be enabled. I checked phpinfo.php and simplexml seems to be enabled on my computer; while it is disabled on the company server.

I don't have the privileges to enable this on the company server, so I was wondering if it will be possible for me to use php.ini to enable simplexml?

Solution 1

Assuming that the guest can reach the web interface, the following command lines should work:

To disable notifications

curl -d "cmd_typ=23&cmd_mod=2&host=[THE HOST]&service=[THE SERVICE]&btnSubmit=Commit" "http://[[NAGIOS SERVER]/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi"

To enable notifications

curl -d "cmd_typ=22&cmd_mod=2&host=[THE HOST]&service=[THE SERVICE]&btnSubmit=Commit" "http://[[NAGIOS SERVER]/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi"

Depending on your setup, you may also need to use the --insecure or --user options of curl.

And IIRC, the cmd_type number is different for service and host groups -- look at what links are being used in your web browser.

Solution 2

Yo can Enable/Disable host notification with nagios.cmd command

e.g:

Disable all notification for my-host

now=`date +%s`
#Check first path nagios.cmd & printf 
commandfile='/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd'  

/usr/bin/printf "[%lu] DISABLE_HOST_NOTIFICATIONS;my-host\n" $now > $commandfile

Enable all notification for my-host

now=`date +%s`
#Check first path nagios.cmd & printf 
commandfile='/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd'  
/usr/bin/printf "[%lu] ENABLE_HOST_NOTIFICATIONS;my-host\n" $now > $commandfile

You can also check this url Nagios Notification command

Comments

[andyhky]

Looks great. I'll give it a try before marking this question as answered. Thanks!

[cssnoob]

Thanks for your reply. I have asked the server admin to enable it; but he takes forever to get something done so that's why I asked if I would be able to enable it through php.ini. I guess I'm just looking for an alternative method rather than having to wait for this guy to act.

[unixbhaskar]

Those command work well for service/host notification enable/disable purpose. But could you please suggest how could I achieve scheduled host downtime by this kind of script? Because the downtime option takes more argument.Please suggest.

[mogsie]

To schedule downtime, again, follow Matt's advice: "Look at what links are being used in your browser" — Look at the HTML form and just emulate that. For "downtime for host and all services" additional parameters are cmd_typ=86, cmd_mod=2, com_data=your comment, trigger=0, start_time=2012-01-02 22:33:00, end_time=2012......, fixed=1, hours=0, minutes=0

[Ben]

The cmd_typ codes can be found here: docs.icinga.org/latest/en/cgiparams.html. Do not use the docs located at old.icinga.org (even though most of the posts will list those ones!)

[Ben]

The link is for the old docs, make sure to use docs.icinga.org/latest/en/cgiparams.html instead.