nagios – Perform common tasks in Nagios related to downtime and notifications

Synopsis

• The nagios module has two basic functions: scheduling downtime and toggling alerts for services or hosts.

• All actions require the host parameter to be given explicitly. In playbooks you can use the {{inventory_hostname}} variable to refer to the host the playbook is currently running on.

• You can specify multiple services at once by separating them with commas, .e.g., services=httpd,nfs,puppet.

• When specifying what service to handle there is a special service value, host, which will handle alerts/downtime for the host itself, e.g., service=host. This keyword may not be given with other services at the same time. Setting alerts/downtime for a host does not affect alerts/downtime for any of the services running on it. To schedule downtime for all services on particular host use keyword “all”, e.g., service=all.

• When using the nagios module you will need to specify your Nagios server using the delegate_to parameter.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
action - / required	Choices: downtime delete_downtime enable_alerts disable_alerts silence unsilence silence_nagios unsilence_nagios command servicegroup_service_downtime servicegroup_host_downtime	Action to take. servicegroup options were added in 2.0. delete_downtime options were added in 2.2.
author -	Default: "Ansible"	Author to leave downtime comments as. Only usable with the downtime action.
cmdfile -	Default: "auto-detected"	Path to the nagios command file (FIFO pipe). Only required if auto-detection fails.
command - / required		The raw command to send to nagios, which should not include the submitted time header or the line-feed Required option when using the command action.
comment -	Default: "Scheduling downtime"	Comment for downtime action.
host -		Host to operate on in Nagios.
minutes integer	Default: 30	Minutes to schedule downtime for. Only usable with the downtime action.
servicegroup -		The Servicegroup we want to set downtimes/alerts for. Required option when using the servicegroup_service_downtime amd servicegroup_host_downtime.
services - / required		What to manage downtime/alerts for. Separate multiple services with commas. service is an alias for services. Required option when using the downtime, enable_alerts, and disable_alerts actions. aliases: service

Examples

# set 30 minutes of apache downtime
- nagios:
    action: downtime
    minutes: 30
    service: httpd
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# schedule an hour of HOST downtime
- nagios:
    action: downtime
    minutes: 60
    service: host
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# schedule an hour of HOST downtime, with a comment describing the reason
- nagios:
    action: downtime
    minutes: 60
    service: host
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
    comment: Rebuilding machine

# schedule downtime for ALL services on HOST
- nagios:
    action: downtime
    minutes: 45
    service: all
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# schedule downtime for a few services
- nagios:
    action: downtime
    services: frob,foobar,qeuz
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# set 30 minutes downtime for all services in servicegroup foo
- nagios:
    action: servicegroup_service_downtime
    minutes: 30
    servicegroup: foo
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# set 30 minutes downtime for all host in servicegroup foo
- nagios:
    action: servicegroup_host_downtime
    minutes: 30
    servicegroup: foo
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# delete all downtime for a given host
- nagios:
    action: delete_downtime
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
    service: all

# delete all downtime for HOST with a particular comment
- nagios:
    action: delete_downtime
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
    service: host
    comment: Planned maintenance

# enable SMART disk alerts
- nagios:
    action: enable_alerts
    service: smart
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# "two services at once: disable httpd and nfs alerts"
- nagios:
    action: disable_alerts
    service: httpd,nfs
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# disable HOST alerts
- nagios:
    action: disable_alerts
    service: host
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# silence ALL alerts
- nagios:
    action: silence
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# unsilence all alerts
- nagios:
    action: unsilence
    host: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'

# SHUT UP NAGIOS
- nagios:
    action: silence_nagios

# ANNOY ME NAGIOS
- nagios:
    action: unsilence_nagios

# command something
- nagios:
    action: command
    command: DISABLE_FAILURE_PREDICTION

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Tim Bielawa (@tbielawa)

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