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pynag - command line front for manipulating nagios configuration

pynag <sub-command> [options] [arguments]

pynag is a command-line utility that can be used to view or change current nagios configuration.

list

print to screen nagios configuration objects as specified by a WHERE clause 
pynag list [attribute1] [attribute2] [WHERE ...]





update

modify specific attributes of nagios objects as specified by a WHERE and SET clause 
pynag update set attr1=value WHERE attr=value and attr=value





delete

Delete objects from nagios configuration as specified by a WHERE clause 
pynag delete delete <WHERE ...>





add

Add a new object definition 
pynag add <object_type> <attr1=value1> [attr2=value2]





copy

Copy objects, specifiying which attributes to change 
pynag copy <WHERE ...> <SET attr1=value1 [attr2=value2] ...>





execute

Executes the currently configured check command for a host or a service 
pynag execute <host_name> [service_description]





config

modify values in main nagios configuration file (nagios.cfg) 
pynag config [--set <attribute=value>] [--old_value=attribute]
pynag config [--append <attribute=value>] [--old_value=attribute]
pynag config [--remove <attribute>] [--old_value=attribute]
pynag config [--get <attribute>]





Some Subcommands use WHERE statements to filter which objects to work with. Where has certain similarity with SQL syntax.

WHERE <attr=value> [AND attr=value] [OR attr=value] 


[another where statement]

where "attr" is any nagios attribute (i.e. host_name or service_description).

pynag list WHERE host_name=localhost and object_type=service
pynag list WHERE object_type=host or object_type=service


Any search attributes have the same syntax as the pynag filter. For example these work just fine:

pynag list WHERE host_name__contains=production
pynag list WHERE host_name__startswith=prod
pynag list WHERE host_name__notcontains=test
pynag list host_name address WHERE address__exists=True
pynag list host_name WHERE register__isnot=0



The pynag filter supports few parameters that are not just attributes.

Example:

  • filename -- The filename which the object belongs
  • id -- pynag unique identifier for the object
  • effective_command_line -- command which nagios will execute

Of course these can be combined with the pynag filter syntax:

pynag list where filename__startswith=/etc/nagios/conf.d/
pynag list host_name service_description effective_command_line



For detailed description of the filter see pydoc for pynag.Model.ObjectDefintion.filter()

Subcommands that use SET statements (like update or copy) use them a list of attributes change for a specific object.

SET <attr1=value1> [attr2=value2] [...]

pynag update SET address=127.0.0.1 WHERE host_name=localhost and object_type=host


pynag list host_name service_description WHERE host_name=myhost and object_type=service

pynag update set check_period=24x7 WHERE host_name=myhost

pynag list host_name address WHERE object_type=host
pynag list host_name service_description WHERE host_name=examplehost and object_type=service

pynag update SET host_name=newhostname WHERE host_name=oldhostname
pynag update SET address=127.0.0.1 WHERE host_name='examplehost.example.com' and object_type=host

pynag copy SET host_name=newhostname WHERE  host_name=oldhostname
pynag copy SET address=127.0.0.1 WHERE host_name='examplehost.example.com' and object_type=host

pynag add host host_name=examplehost use=generic-host address=127.0.0.1
pynag add service service_description="Test Service" use="check_nrpe" host_name="localhost"

pynag delete where object_type=service and host_name='mydeprecated_host'
pynag delete where filename__startswith='/etc/nagios/myoldhosts'

pynag execute localhost
pynag execute localhost "Disk Space

See http://github.com/pynag/pynag.git for more information.

Pall Sigurdsson and Tomas Edwardsson

2014, Pall Sigurdsson and Tomas Edwardsson

August 5, 2014 0.9.1