Disabling custom checks

[alz0 (Aitor)]

Hi,
I want to disable some custom checks but I dont know how to do it.
I’ve tried doing it with “Disabled services” but this only work for undiscovered services.
Then I tried with “Disable checks” but custom checks dont apppear there…
The only way that comes to my mind is going to the custom checks and selecting “Do not apply this rule” but I have 1000 of this, so this isnt so easy… Probably I can make an API but there isnt any easier way to do this?

Thanks in advance

[Anders]

@alz0

I’ve tried doing it with “Disabled services” but this only work for undiscovered services.

Thats not true. but you need to activate the changes

[alz0 (Aitor)]

@Anders

Thats not true. but you need to activate the changes

Of course I have “Activate the changes” but thie services continue checking.
Maybe, if I re-scan all the hosts (I dont know how to do this masively) it works…

[Dirk]

@alz0

… going to the custom checks and selecting “Do not apply this rule”

What do you mean by that? What rule? In my imagination “custom checks” are self-written check plugins (and maybe WATO and/or metric plugins) that don’t ship with checkmk. They need no rule to be instantiated. They are discovered like any other (built-in) check and can also be disabled with the two rules you mentioned like any other check.

Or are you talking about “enforced services”? They need a rule to be instantiated. In fact, the rule is the way to enforce them.

In the latter case I don’t know how checkmk behaves and which rule wins if one rule says “host X has service Y” and another rule says “disable service Y on host X”.

[alz0 (Aitor)]

Hi @Dirk , thanks for your reply!

What do you mean by that? What rule? In my imagination “custom checks” are self-written check plugins

With custom checks I refer to “Other Services-> Integrate Nagios Plugins”

In the “Disable Checks” rules configuration I dont see this checks in the available checks list

[Anders]

@alz0

With custom checks I refer to “Other Services-> Integrate Nagios Plugins”

Don’t think I understand, you have explicitly added a Nagios/MRPE check and now you want to hide it using disabled services???

[robin.gierse]

I think what you are looking for are the right conditions for the Integrate Nagios Plugins rule, so it is only applied, where it should be.

But apart from that Disabled Services should still work, so I smell another configuration error there.

[alz0 (Aitor)]

Don’t think I understand, you have explicitly added a Nagios/MRPE check and now you want to hide it using disabled services???

Well, I want to disable some and mantain activated other, the I wan to to activate the disable ones, an then activate them little by little (to do some proofs).

But I solved the problem with “Disable Services” .

Edit:
@robin.gierse thanks for the answer! Yes, It was probably the order of the rule