Nagios module usage

Dimitri Yioulos

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Sep 14, 2015, 12:40:29 PM9/14/15

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I'd like to set downtime in Nagios for several hosts at once using the Nagios module. How do I specify those several hosts?

- nagios: action=downtime minutes=30 service=all host=?

Many thanks.

Brian Coca

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Sep 14, 2015, 12:41:49 PM9/14/15

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you can do:

- nagios: action=downtime minutes=30 service=all host={{item}}
with_items: "{{ listofhosts }}"

or if it is a specific ansible inventory group:

- nagios: action=downtime minutes=30 service=all host={{item}}
with_items: "{{ groups['specificgroup'] }}"

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Dimitri Yioulos

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Sep 14, 2015, 12:45:22 PM9/14/15

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Excellent - thank you, Brian!

Dimitri Yioulos

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Sep 14, 2015, 12:57:50 PM9/14/15

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Oh, Brian, is the {{ listofhosts }} just a space-delimited list?

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Brian Coca

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Sep 14, 2015, 1:04:15 PM9/14/15

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its a list

listofhosts:
- host1
- host2

or

listofhosts: [ 'host1', 'host2', ....]

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Dimitri Yioulos

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Sep 14, 2015, 2:17:04 PM9/14/15

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Sorry I'm asking Ansible 101 questions, but my play isn't working:

tasks:
    - nagios: action=downtime minutes=5 author="My Name" service=all host={{item}}
      with_items: "{{ listofhosts }}"
      listofhosts:
         - summitauto
      delegate_to: nagios_server
      tags:
         - nagios_downtime

I guess I don't know where to put my list. Also not sure if "author" belongs where I have it.

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Brian Coca

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Sep 14, 2015, 2:22:14 PM9/14/15

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you cannot define it that way, you either predefine the list in a
vars: or vars_file or just do it like this:

tasks:
- nagios: action=downtime minutes=5 author="My Name" service=all
host={{item}}
with_items:

- summitauto
delegate_to: nagios_server
tags:
- nagios_downtime

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Dimitri Yioulos

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Sep 14, 2015, 3:13:31 PM9/14/15

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When I try that, I get the following errors:

fatal: [host1 -> nagios_server] => Authentication failure.
fatal: [host2 -> nagios_server] => Authentication failure.
fatal: [host3 -> nagios_server] => Authentication failure.
changed: [host4 -> nagios_server] => (item=summitauto)
changed: [host5 -> nagios_server] => (item=summitauto)
changed: [host6 -> nagios_server] => (item=summitauto)

That's clearly not what I'm after. The beginning of the playbook looks like this:

- hosts: all
gather_facts: false
sudo: yes

and I run the playbook like this: ansible-playbook someplaybook.yml --tags "nagios_downtime" -u sudoacct

Thanks for your continuing help.

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Dimitri Yioulos

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Sep 15, 2015, 9:39:53 AM9/15/15

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I didn't realize that I needed to create a separate play in my playbook to do this piece. Once I did that, everything worked as advertise. Sorry that my learning mistakes have created noise. Thanks, again, to Brian Coca for all the help - greatly appreciated!

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