RFE for Nagios passive checks display

Martin, Matthew Matthew.Martin at qwest.com
Mon Jan 19 22:48:00 CET 2009


The staff here is trained to keep an eye on the "Unhandled Problems" on the Tactical Overview page. Passive services do not appear in that view. The query shown is, for example:
	Display Filters:
	Host Status Types:	Pending | Up
	Host Properties:	Any
	Service Status Types:	Critical
	Service Properties:	Not In Scheduled Downtime & Has Not Been Acknowledged & Active Checks Enabled

I think that the last part of the query "& Active Checks Enabled" is not such a useful interface for those of us that have devices that are only monitored passively, for example by SNMP traps.

I've found I can work around this to make passive-only service appear in the list like so, but I would be nice to get this changed:

define service{
        use                             generic-service
        name                            some_service
        service_description             Some service description
        active_checks_enabled           1            ; Active service checks are enabled
        passive_checks_enabled          1            ; Passive service checks are enabled/accepted
-->     check_command                   check_dummy  ; Just returns "OK"
        normal_check_interval           60
        notification_interval           60
        max_check_attempts              1
        retry_check_interval            1
        notification_options            w,c
-->     check_period                    none         ; "none" shown below....
        servicegroups                   fw_logs
        register                        0
        }

# 'none' timeperiod definition
define timeperiod{
        timeperiod_name none
        alias           No Time Is A Good Time
        }

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