[Nagios-users] Version 2.0 timeframe?

[Bjørnar Bjørgum Larsen]

> I am still trying to figure out what to do about passive host checks, 
> as there are a number of scenarios where they will not function as 
> people would expect.  This mainly affects distributed monitoring, 
> where the host topology on master and slave servers does not look the 
> same.  For this reason, passive host checks would probably have to be 
> tweaked so that DOWN states get translated into UNREACHABLE states 
> (and vice versa) where appropriate.  I'm still not sure how or if I 
> should implement that internally in Nagios.

When you implement this translation, it might be a good idea if 
it could be turned off, eg. "use_distributed_translation=0" in 
nagios.cfg. This is to be able to use an all-passive nagios top node 
(i.e central nagios host) as a dummy that reflects the nagios
leaf nodes' (i.e distributed nagios hosts') world view.

:) Bjørnar


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