Creating Checks From BI Aggregates

BI aggregates are no monitoring objects but BI solely happens in the graphical user interface. There are some situations - however - where your might want to have Nagios services corresponding to BI aggregates. This is needed when:

• you want to notify on BI state changes,
• you want to create availability reports on BI aggregates,
• you want to make BI states available via Livestatus

Check_MK ships a small Python script check_bi_local.py that accomplishes that. It creates one local check out of each BI aggregate. You find this in the doc/check_mk/treasures directory (OMD: ~/share/doc/check_mk/treasures).

1. Install the Check_MK agent on localhost and add that host to your monitoring (the host name is not important).
2. Create the directory /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/local
3. Copy check_bi_local.py to /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/local
4. Edit this file and adapt the URL prefix, user and password for Multisite.
5. Make sure it is executable.
6. Run inventory on the host that you've added in the first step.