send_nsca and nagios passive service problems

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Shawn Starr wrote:

> I'm a little confused on something:
> 
> 
> When creating a service, all 'remote' services such as load, disk space and
> such are passive services. Send_nsca sends the data to NSCA which then pipes
> that info to Nagios.cmd. 
> 
> My problem is this, if the service is marked passive and freshness is set
> (1). Nagios reports that the service is stale and will force a check again.
> The problem is, it cannot check if it's a passive service.
> 
> How should I configure a passive service with NSCA <-> send_nsca use? 
> 
> Could someone provide a service sample on how this is done or provide
> documentation on how this is done?
> 
> Shawn.
> 


http://YourHost/nagios/docs/freshness.html

use the freshness_threshold in the service definition to determine the max 
time interval you can go without getting a passive check, and what command 
to issue (typically a notification) if the threshold is crossed.

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-sg



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