Removing host checks for non-OK passive results

[Ethan Galstad]

Jason Martin wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 04:03:10PM +0100, Ton Voon wrote:
>> Hi Ethan!
>>
>> We found that Nagios is making a host check for every non-OK passive  
>> result received. We don't think that is necessary because if a  
>> passive result is received, then the host must be okay! Details and  
> That is not necessairily true. In distributed mode, one Nagios
> might send a service check result to another Nagios via NSCA
> hence passive check result.  The host being monitored may be
> down but you'll still get passive check results for it and don't
> want the host assumed up.
> 
> However, if this was implemented as a config file option such
> that users could invoke this only if they are not running Nagios
> in a distributed manner, it would make sense to include it.
> Otherwise it probably breaks distributed Nagios behavior.
> 
> -Jason Martin

Indeed, this would cause problems under a distributed environment.  I'll 
have to think about this a bit and see whether or not (yet another) 
config file option would be appropriate...  This will go on my list of 
outstanding TODO/TOLOOKAT issues for 3.0.


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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