Do not display a service in the service detail window

Question

I have lots of services defined. Sometimes I want to disable a service, but I do not want to remove the service definition. There are flags to disable the checks:

   active_checks_enabled            0
   passive_checks_enabled           0

But the flags are still being shown (see image):

disabled service

Is there a flag to avoid nagios to display the service? I can of course comment it out from the service definition, but I would prefer to use a flag instead.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '13 at 13:25

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I think register 0 should work so the service doesn't get registered with nagios

answered Mar 08 '13 at 13:25

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '13 at 03:08

After disabling active checks (makes the big X appear), simply submit a passive check result for that service. Set the passive check to 'OK'. I usually add the text "Resetting" so others watching will know why it suddenly went 'green'. Doing this removes the failure from the "Problems" screen. No config changes required.

To bring the check 'back'. You simply enable active checks again.

Do not display a service in the service detail window

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