Customize Ping Variables in Director

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I am trying to customize the threshold values for ping command.
I’ve cloned the built in ping4 command but I can’t find a way to edit the thresholds in Director.
Is it possible to do?

I want to edit these values

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Hi Michael,
the thresholds in the command are default values, which can be overwritten at different places. Responsible is the Icinga Evaluation Order.

Cheers,
Marcus

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you need to add a field to the command for example ping_cpl
this field will be appended to the host or service which uses the command and you can overwrite this value

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Where do I add these fields?
I’ve tried under Command->Fields and when I apply it to a Host Template it falls apart.

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what do you mean by falls apart?

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Here is what I did step by step.

  1. Clone existing ping command (named it ping-test)

  2. Edited the new ping-test command on the Fields tab I added the three fields shown in images

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  3. Deployed changes

  4. Added a new service for the ping-test command

  5. Assigned that service to a hostgroup

  6. Deployed changes

  7. I get the error shown in the image
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your command ping4-urient
calls check_ping which is seem reasonable, but as seen in the error message requires a host to ping which is set via a variable definded as ping_address!
you need to set a field named ping address as well in oder for command to work.

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did that work for you?

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No, I’m still having the same issue.
Here is how I set it up.

Command Definition

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Service Template

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Host Template

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This is error I get on the hosts
host_error

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try ping_address = $host.address$
also set host address in the host

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Okay, so I got it to work with my values by putting the$host.address$ in the service template.

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However, now I’m in the situation that the ping is reporting correctly with my adjusted values, but the host has a second ping from the hostalive command that is still reporting as a warning with the old values.
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Can I replace the hostalive command with my ping-test command?

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I went a head and tried replacing the hostalive with my ping-test command and it all seems happy.
If there is some reason NOT to do this, let me know. Otherwise I’ll consider this resolved.

Thanks!

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yes you can replace hostalive with your ping-test as the host(-is-up)-check command, if you need the thresholds adjustable