Run checks for a specific module or a specific check inside a module

I've created a patch which gets this working. Also, I was updating the docs and decided to move them to nagios.api.php which I believe is the common format these days. It's more or less the same, but I added the new param there to the hook definition.

I also removed the $skip_invoke stuff because it didn't seem like it was doing anything.

 function nagios_status_page() {
-  $skip_invoke = FALSE;
-
+  $args = func_get_args();
+  // Module to run checks for.
+  $module = array_shift($args);
+  // ID to run checks for.
+  $id = array_shift($args);
+  

+    if ($module) {
+      // A specific module has been requested.
+      $nagios_data = array();
+      $nagios_data[$module] = module_invoke($module, 'nagios', $id);
+    }
+    else {
+      $nagios_data = nagios_invoke_all('nagios');
+    }

is the gist of it.

Sorry if the point wasn't clear. The problem is:

Perhaps we want to run a bunch of different checks, but get the status of each one individually because we would escalate them differently. We also want to run some checks every minute, but some are more intensive or don't want constant alerts, so we run them every hour.

Bad, generic example:

Say we've got 10 checks we want to run. I can't think of great examples, but let's called them c1...c10

We want to check c1 every minute, and if it fails, throw a CRIT

We want to check c2, c3 and c4 every 5 minutes, they all have different error levels they might throw.

With the current code, there is no way to do this. With my patch, we can setup 5-6 services in Nagios and tune them to just check what we need to check when. And of course, the original functionality hasn't changed as you noted.

My bad on the new file. f*!@#@ing CVS.

Attached the new patch.

Thanks!

Koi baat nahi :) Shukriya

I didn't know you spoke Urdu! how did you learn? Or is it the same in Egyptian Arabic? I don't know, but I think it's Shukran in Arabic

We should chat sometime about nagios. I'm trying to figure out how to build something with rrdtool to do performance monitoring (send perf stats to nagios and build tables and graphs). If you have any ideas in this area, I'd appreciate it.

Best,
J