icli - Icinga Command Line Interface

icli [-v|-vv] [-z filter] [-h hosts] [-g hostgroups] [-s services] [-c config] [-C] [-f status-file] [-F rw-file] [-r|-u|-lh|-ls|-lq|-ld] [host/service ...]

version 0.44

icli is a command line interface to Icinga. By default it lists all services and their states.

Note that when supplying custom config and status file paths, icli also works with Nagios. 100% compatibility is not guaranteed, however.

icli only works when executed on the host running the Icinga daemon. To use it on another host, shell aliases (like alias icli='ssh $icingahost icli') or similar are recommended.

You can narrow down the list of services you want displayed either using filters (like icli -z!o), the -h/-s arguments (icli -h aneurysm -s Libraries,Websites) or commandline args (icli aneurysm/{Libraries,Websites} with shell expansion).

-a|--acknowledge comment

Acknowledge all matching services with string comment. This creates a sticky acknwoledgment with notification and no expire time. The comment will not be persistent.

Note: Acknowledgement of host problems is not yet supported.

-c|--config config

Read config from file instead of the default /var/cache/icinga/objects.cache

-C|--no-colours

Disable colours in output

-f|--status-file file

Read the status from file instead of the default /var/lib/icinga/status.dat

-F|--rw-file file

Use file as external commands file. Default: /var/lib/icinga/rw/icinga.cmd

-g|--hostgroup hostgroup

Limit selection to hosts in hostgroup (comma separated list)

-h|--host hosts

Limit selection to hosts (comma separated list)

-l|--list downtimes|hosts|services|queue

List either services (the default) or hosts. Note that only the first character of the argument is checked, so icli -lh, icli -ls etc. are also fine.

-m|--match regex

Limit selection to hosts/services whose plugin output matches regex (perl regular expression, case insensitive. see perlre).

-o|--overview

Display "tactical overview"-style overview. By default (or when used with -ls) the number of all hosts and services (both total and divided by their state) is shown.

When used with -lh, lists all hosts with the number of ok / warning / ... checks on each host.

-r|--recheck

Schedule an immediate recheck of all selected services

-u|--force-recheck

Schedule a forced, immediate recheck of all selected services

-U|--as-contact name

Only operate on service visible to name. Doesn't work for -lh yet, most useful for -ls.

NOTE: This is meant to help find out which services a user has access to. It is NOT intended as a way to restrict access and should never be used that way.

-s|--service services

Limit selection to services (comma separated lists). Can be combined with -h/-g to further narrow down the selection, but may also be used stand-alone.

-v|--verbose

Increase output verbosity. Can be combined up to -vvv

-V|--version

Show version information

-x|--cut-mode mode

What to do with lines which are too long for the terminal: nothing, cut off, line break (with proper indentation). The default is line breaks

-z|--filter expression

Limit selection to hosts/services passing the filter. expression is a comma separated list of filters, only hosts/services to which all filters apply are selected. See also "FILTER EXPRESSIONS"

This is the standard output method. It contains the following:

* Service description

* -v: Service Flags (Acknowledged, Flapping, Passive, !no checks)

* Service state (ok / warning / critical / unknown)

* -v: Current attempt / Max attempts

* Plugin output

Enabled with -ld

* Host name

* Host state (ok / down / unreachable)

* -v: Current attempt / Max attempts

* Plugin output

Enabled with -lq

* Host name

* Service name

* Last check

* Next check

Each expression can be negated with an exclamation mark, e.g. "!A" for all non-acknowledged services.

A

Check state has been acknowledged

D

The host this service belongs to is Down or Unreachable

F

Service is flapping between states

N

Notifications for this service are disabled

P

Only passive checks are enabled. Note that !P simply means that active checks are enabled, no matter the status of passive checks

S

Check state is soft. For instance, it used to be OK and is now critical, but has not reached its maximum number and caused a notification yet. Good to find (or ignore) service problems which might just be temporary, non-critical glitches.

o

Host/Service state is OK

w

Service state is Warning

c

Service state is Critical

u

Service state is Unknown

d

Host state is Down

x

Host state is Unreachable

Zero, unless errors occured.

None.

* autodie (included with perl >= 5.10.1)

* Date::Format

* Term::Size

This software is in early development stages. So there will probably be quite a lot.

Either via mail to <derf@finalrewind.org> or on <http://github.com/derf/icinga-cli/issues>.

icli -r -s 'APT Updates'

Schedule a check of the "APT Updates" service on all hosts having it

icli -lq -h aneurysm -g chaosdorf-hosts

List check queue for all hosts in the hostgroup "chaosdorf-hosts", plus the host aneurysm

icli -z!o,!A,!S,!D

Show all service problems which are already hard states and have not yet been acknowledged. Also weed out problem services on hosts which are down anyways

Copyright (C) 2010 by Daniel Friesel <derf@finalrewind.org>

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