freshness checking

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

On 4/27/2007 4:50 PM, Marco Supino wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I am having a problem with freshness checking, while the documentation 
> says that active checks with freshness enabled should run the active 
> check only if the check  is stale, I cant see it happening, I am using a 
> lot of passive checks, and the active check is running anyway,

Looks like you still have active checks enabled. These need to be turned 
off, IIRC.

>  
> 
> I looked at the code for active checks, 

Better look at the manual :-) that's where I got my knowledge from, and 
it works correctly, here.


>and there is nothing about 
> checking for result freshness before running an active check, the only 
> solution I found was to put check_period to none, but it creates other 
> problems, disabling active_checks for a service will put it as 
> “disabled” in the TAC, which is not want I want,

... but what you get. That's the way things are in Nagios. Notification 
are created as expected, and I don't consider the tactical overview the 
most useful report Nagios can deliver.

IIRC, there are patches available for this situation - search he list 
archives!

Arno

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