"assign where" does not work

Icinga 2
1

I’m trying to figure out why this does not work. Could anybody please point me to the problem?

Goal: to have a service active for all hosts that have an OS of type DD.

templates.conf:
template Host “generic-DD” {
import “generic-host”
vars.os = “DD”
vars.notification[“mail”] = {
groups = [ “Storage-L3”,“Storage-L2” ]
}
}

hosts.conf:
object Host “serverXXX”{
import “generic-DD”
address = “serverXXX.domain.com”
vars.has_vtl = true
vars.dc = “datacenter-name”
}

services.conf:
apply Service “FS2 total compression” {
import “generic-service”
display_name = “FS2 total compression factor”
check_command = “check_datadomain”
vars.type = “total_compr”
assign where host.vars.os == “DD”
}

Somehow, this does not show up in the webinterface. What am I doing wrong?

2

Hi,

what’s the output of

icinga2 --version
icinga2 daemon -C
icinga2 object list --type Host --name serverXXX
icinga2 object list --type Service --name *FS2*

Cheers,
Michael

3

icinga2 --version
icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon (version: v2.6.3)

Copyright © 2012-2017 Icinga Development Team ( — )
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later < — >
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Application information:
Installation root: /usr
Sysconf directory: /etc
Run directory: /run
Local state directory: /var
Package data directory: /usr/share/icinga2
State path: /var/lib/icinga2/icinga2.state
Modified attributes path: /var/lib/icinga2/modified-attributes.conf
Objects path: /var/cache/icinga2/icinga2.debug
Vars path: /var/cache/icinga2/icinga2.vars
PID path: /run/icinga2/icinga2.pid

System information:
Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Platform version: 7.2 (Maipo)
Kernel: Linux
Kernel version: 3.10.0-327.36.1.el7.x86_64
Architecture: x86_64

Build information:
Compiler: GNU 4.8.5
Build host: unknown

icinga2 daemon -C

information/cli: Icinga application loader (version: v2.6.3)
information/cli: Loading configuration file(s).
information/ConfigItem: Committing config item(s).
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 SyslogLogger.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 Zone.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 FileLogger.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 Endpoint.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 290 Notifications.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 2 NotificationCommands.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 ScheduledDowntime.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 67 CheckCommands.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 Downtime.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 12 HostGroups.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 IcingaApplication.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 EventCommand.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 33 Hosts.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 8 Users.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 4 UserGroups.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 3 TimePeriods.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 13 ServiceGroups.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 364 Services.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 ExternalCommandListener.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 IdoMysqlConnection.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 NotificationComponent.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 PerfdataWriter.
information/ConfigItem: Instantiated 1 CheckerComponent.
information/ScriptGlobal: Dumping variables to file ‘/var/cache/icinga2/icinga2.vars’
information/cli: Finished validating the configuration file(s).

icinga2 object list --type Host --name serverXXX
Object ‘serverXXX’ of type ‘Host’:
% declared in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/hosts.conf’, lines 133:1-133:22

  • __name = “serverXXX”
  • action_url = “”
  • address = “serverXXX.domain.com”
    % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/hosts.conf’, lines 135:2-135:34
  • address6 = “”
  • check_command = “hostalive”
    % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/templates.conf’, lines 23:2-23:28
  • check_interval = 60
    % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/templates.conf’, lines 21:2-21:20
  • check_period = “”
  • check_timeout = null
  • command_endpoint = “”
  • display_name = “serverXXX”
  • enable_active_checks = true
  • enable_event_handler = true
  • enable_flapping = false
  • enable_notifications = true
  • enable_passive_checks = true
  • enable_perfdata = true
  • event_command = “”
  • flapping_threshold = 30
  • groups = [ ]
  • icon_image = “”
  • icon_image_alt = “”
  • max_check_attempts = 3
    % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/templates.conf’, lines 20:2-20:23
  • name = “serverXXX”
  • notes = “”
  • notes_url = “”
  • package = “_etc”
  • retry_interval = 30
    % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/templates.conf’, lines 22:2-22:21
  • templates = [ “serverXXX”, “generic-DD”, “generic-host” ]
    % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/hosts.conf’, lines 133:1-133:22
    % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/templates.conf’, lines 75:1-75:26
    % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/templates.conf’, lines 19:1-19:28
  • type = “Host”
  • vars
    • dc = “datacenter-name”
      % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/hosts.conf’, lines 137:2-137:17
    • has_vtl = true
      % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/hosts.conf’, lines 136:2-136:20
    • notification
      • mail
        % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/templates.conf’, lines 78:2-80:2
        • groups = [ “Storage-L3”, “Storage-L2” ]
    • os = “DD”
      % = modified in ‘/etc/icinga2/adient/templates.conf’, lines 77:2-77:15
  • volatile = false
  • zone = “”

icinga2 object list --type Service --name FS2

4

Config validation and the generated host object looks fairly ok, only the Icinga 2 version is very dated and may contain bugs. I’d suggest to use packages.icinga.com as package source instead of Debian/Ubuntu upstream.

5

Yea, I know about the version. Issue is that the repos are controlled by a different, very conservative and not cooperative team. Thats really an issue and the reason why I try to work with a version as long as possible.

So, finally you confirmed that I did not fuck up the config. I’ll continue my thinking about this…

6

If apply rules don’t match, Icinga logs a warning at least. If it doesn’t, I’d verify if the config files are actually included, e.g. with icinga2 daemon -C -x notice | grep <applyrulefile>.conf.

7

Okay. This is completely my fault and I’m very sorry!

I messed up the comments of inactive services and VIM did not display properly that I’m working in a commented area. I now cleaned up the file and everything works as planned.

Thank you!