Nagios configuration

The objects/contacts.cfg file just lists the email addresses that are supposed to get notifications, via individual define contacts and a define contactgroup - this is completely vanilla.

It looks like I might have tweaked commands.cfg right after installing nagios, but I didn't record what I did... sorry.

File varela.csail.mit.edu:/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/services.cfg looks like this (as of 2018-03-15): (soon I'll add a rule for the api host duplicating the pushes_succeeding test on devapi) (note that someone who knows nagios better than I do could get rid of all the duplicated information)

# Hosts and services for opentree

# Some of the OT servers are misconfigured to block ping.

define host {
       name                     pingless-server
       use                      generic-host
       max_check_attempts   1               ; A value was required for this field
       active_checks_enabled        0
       register                 0
       }

define host {
        use                     linux-server            ; Name of host template to use
        host_name               tree.opentreeoflife.org
        alias                   tree.opentreeoflife.org
        address                 54.202.84.87
        }

define service {
       use              generic-service         ; Inherit default values from a template
       host_name                                tree.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description                      HTTP
       check_command                            check_http!-S -N -u / --onredirect=follow
       }

define host {
        use                     linux-server            ; Name of host template to use
        host_name               api.opentreeoflife.org
        }

define service {
       use              generic-service         ; Inherit default values from a template
       host_name                                api.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description                      HTTP
       check_command                            check_http
       }

define host {
        use                     linux-server            ; Name of host template to use
        host_name               devtree.opentreeoflife.org
        }

define service {
       use              generic-service         ; Inherit default values from a template
       host_name                                devtree.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description                      HTTP
       check_command                            check_http
       }

define host {
        use                     linux-server            ; Name of host template to use
        host_name               devapi.opentreeoflife.org
        }

define service {
       use              generic-service         ; Inherit default values from a template
       host_name                                devapi.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description                      HTTP
       check_command                            check_http
       }

define service {
       use              generic-service         ; Inherit default values from a template
       host_name                                devapi.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description                      no-push-failure
       check_command                            check_http!-u /phylesystem/v1/push_failure -r "pushes_succeeding?: true" --invert-regex
       }


#define host {
#        use                     linux-server            ; Name of host template to use
#        host_name               opentreeoflife.org
#        }

#define service {
#       use              generic-service         ; Inherit default values from a template
#       host_name                                opentreeoflife.org
#       service_description                      HTTP
#       check_command                            check_http!--expect=Found
#       }

define service {
       use generic-service
       host_name api.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description TREEMACHINE
       check_command check_treemachine
       }

define service {
       use generic-service
       host_name api.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description TAXOMACHINE
       check_command check_taxomachine
       }

define service {
       use generic-service
       host_name api.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description OTI
       check_command check_oti
       }

define service {
       use generic-service
       host_name devapi.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description TREEMACHINE
       check_command check_treemachine
       }

define service {
       use generic-service
       host_name devapi.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description TAXOMACHINE
       check_command check_taxomachine
       }

define service {
       use generic-service
       host_name devapi.opentreeoflife.org
       service_description OTI
       check_command check_oti
       }

define command {
       command_name check_treemachine
       command_line curl -L --post301 -X POST "http://$HOSTNAME$/v3/tree_of_life/about" -H "content-type:application/json" -d '{"include_source_list":false}' | grep -q "taxon"
       }

define command {
       command_name check_taxomachine
       command_line curl -L --post301 -X POST "http://$HOSTNAME$/v3/taxonomy/about" -H "content-type:application/json" -d '{}' | grep -q "source"
       }

define command {
       command_name check_oti
       command_line curl -L --post301 -X POST "http://$HOSTNAME$/v3/studies/find_studies" -H "content-type:application/json" -d '{"property":"ot:studyId","value":"pg_152","verbose":true}' | grep -q "Coreopsis"
       }

# 'check_http' command definition
define command {
        command_name    check_http_with_forwards
        command_line    $USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$
        }