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External Commands
Icinga 2 provides an external command pipe for processing commands triggering specific actions (for example rescheduling a service check through the web interface).
In order to enable the ExternalCommandListener configuration use the
following command and restart Icinga 2 afterwards:
# icinga2-enable-feature command
Icinga 2 creates the command pipe file as /var/run/icinga2/cmd/icinga2.cmd
using the default configuration.
Web interfaces and other Icinga addons are able to send commands to Icinga 2 through the external command pipe, for example for rescheduling a forced service check:
# /bin/echo "[`date +%s`] SCHEDULE_FORCED_SVC_CHECK;localhost;ping4;`date +%s`" >> /var/run/icinga2/cmd/icinga2.cmd
# tail -f /var/log/messages
Oct 17 15:01:25 icinga-server icinga2: Executing external command: [1382014885] SCHEDULE_FORCED_SVC_CHECK;localhost;ping4;1382014885
Oct 17 15:01:25 icinga-server icinga2: Rescheduling next check for service 'ping4'
By default the command pipe file is owned by the group icingacmd with read/write
permissions. Add your webserver's user to the group icingacmd to
enable sending commands to Icinga 2 through your web interface:
# usermod -G -a icingacmd www-data
Debian packages use nagios as the default user and group name. Therefore change icingacmd to
nagios.
External Command List
A list of currently supported external commands can be found on the Icinga Wiki. Detailed information on the commands and their required parameters can be found on the Icinga 1.x documentation.