Feature request

[Christoph Maser]

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Hi,

this is not a good idea. You will never know if your services are just
stale. Make your checks report periodically (e.g. once a day) report an
OK status themselves and add freshness checking. Otherwise you will not
know if the service actually works.


Chris

Horvath Tamas wrote:
> Hi Listmembers!
> 
> I think it would be useful if Nagios automatically set up passive service
> checks' initial state. For example after I configured a passive service
> check, its status will be "Ok" and its status information will be "Service
> assumed to be ok".
> 
> In my scenario I have lost status information and all of my passive service
> checks become "PENDING", "Service check is not scheduled for execution...".
> I have more than 300 passive service checks and nearly 200 are based upon
> smatmontools. SMARTD will not send information to Nagios for a long time (I
> hope, because it means that HDDs are OK). In this case PENDING", "Service
> check is not scheduled for execution..." on the web page is a little
> confusing. Our users complained about it. 
> 
> Today I spent more than 1 hour to submit passive check results for all of
> these services manually, one at a time. It was time consuming and tedious.
> 
> If you think that this idea is wrong, do you know a tool, which can setup
> all PENDING passive service checks intial status together?.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 	Tamas.
> 
> PS.: I use Nagios 1.3.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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