Excluding services from monitoring on Windows.

Hello @jakubsz 

You cannot add options (MACROS) like that, you need to use regular expression (Regexp) to exclude services.

Documentation is really light about your plugin pack : https://docs.centreon.com/pp/integrations/plugin-packs/procedures/operatingsystems-windows-nsclient-05-nrpe/ for the supervision of this operating system.

And the older documentation also :

https://docs-older.centreon.com/older/

Plugin Packs : https://docs-older.centreon.com/docs/plugins-packs/fr/latest/ or https://docs-older.centreon.com/docs/plugins-packs/en/latest/

You could have more help and understanding about plugins and regular expressions on SugarBug website https://www.sugarbug.fr/

https://www.sugarbug.fr/atelier/techniques/plugins/plugins_centreon/regex-perl/

And also the syntax about NSClient++ : https://docs.nsclient.org/checks/

A plugin pack is just an preconfigured Host template with is Services template (Not really ALL the possibility of the script behind) and maybe sometimes Discovery template to use Discovery module.

All the options (MACROS) are defined on the Command that the reason you cannot add options (MACROS) except if you create your command, your service template, host template in order to apply your host template to your host.

Command behind your service template :

$USER1$/$_HOSTNRPECLIENT$ -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $_HOSTNRPEPORT$ -t $_HOSTNRPETIMEOUT$ $_HOSTNRPEEXTRAOPTIONS$ -c check_service -a "filter=$_SERVICEFILTER$" "service=$_SERVICESERVICE$" "exclude=$_SERVICEEXCLUDE$" "exclude=$_SERVICEEXCLUDE2$" "warning=$_SERVICEWARNING$" "critical=$_SERVICECRITICAL$" 'top-syntax=$_SERVICETOPSYNTAX$' 'detail-syntax=$_SERVICEDETAILSYNTAX$' $_SERVICEEXTRAOPTIONS$

Regards,

Could someone post an actual working example? I’ve tried various combinations and with regexp and none work. For example:

 

[root@luluxlinfpv007 ~]# /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_centreon_nrpe3 -H 10.125.218.245 -p 5666 -t 30 -u -2 -P 8192 -c  check_service -a "filter=start_type = 'auto' and is_trigger = 0" "service=*"  "exclude=tiledatamodelsvc" "warning=not state_is_perfect()" "critical=not state_is_ok()" 'top-syntax=${problem_list}'  'detail-syntax=${name}=${state} (${start_type})' 'perf-config=none'
OK: All 42 service(s) are ok.
[root@luluxlinfpv007 ~]# /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_centreon_nrpe3 -H 10.125.218.245 -p 5666 -t 30 -u -2 -P 8192 -c  check_service -a "filter=start_type = 'auto' and is_trigger = 0" "service=*"  "exclude=^(MapsBroker|tiledatamodelsvc)$" "warning=not state_is_perfect()" "critical=not state_is_ok()" 'top-syntax=${problem_list}'  'detail-syntax=${name}=${state} (${start_type})' 'perf-config=none'
tiledatamodelsvc=stopped (auto)

Hi @gespada 

No luck

[root@luluxlinfpv007 ~]# /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_centreon_nrpe3 -H 10.125.218.245 -p 5666 -t 30 -u -2 -P 8192 -c  check_service -a "filter=start_type = 'auto' and is_trigger = 0" "service=*"  "exclude=^(?!(MapsBroker|tiledatamodelsvc)$)" "warning=not state_is_perfect()" "critical=not state_is_ok()" 'top-syntax=${problem_list}'  'detail-syntax=${name}=${state} (${start_type})' 'perf-config=none'
Invalid command line: unrecognised option '(MapsBroker|tiledatamodelsvc)$)'

This is the kind of stuff I’m constantly hitting with nearly every single Centreon plugin - it’s becoming quite tiresome ☹️

[root@luluxlinfpv007 ~]# /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_centreon_nrpe3 -H 10.125.218.245 -p 5666 -t 30 -u -2 -P 8192 -c  check_service -a "filter=start_type = 'auto' and is_trigger = 0" "service=*"  "exclude=^(?!(MapsBroker|tiledatamodelsvc)$)" "warning=not state_is_perfect()" "critical=not state_is_ok()" 'top-syntax=${problem_list}'  'detail-syntax=${name}=${state} (${start_type})' 'perf-config=none'
Invalid command line: unrecognised option '(MapsBroker|tiledatamodelsvc)$)'

It’s not the fault of the centreon-plugins sometimes. With NRPE, you have the nasty_metachars parameter who can complicate the execution of the command 😓

With the 4.0.2 of NRPE :

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#402---2020-03-11

Impossible to change the nasty_metachars, because not readed from configuration (hardcoding)

With the 4.0.3 of NRPE : 

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#403---2020-04-28

They added to the standard settings “ who are add to the nasty_metachars

A fix was made with the 4.1.0, but Centreon don’t packaged it https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#410---2022-07-18 (Maybe about a licensing problem) Nagios change is license or block to Nagios only)

NRPE is depreacated since 2019/2020 but they modify it, it’s disturbing : https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/blob/master/README.md

Your workaround is good !