send_nsca configuration confusion

[Marc Powell]

John Stotler <mailto:jstotler at mysck.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to automate some testing using send_nsca.
> 
> I've written a script which will check a database for recent updates
> from specific locations which I have created as hosts, and I'm trying
> to get the script to output send_nsca commands.  
> 
> I'm not sure how to (or whether I even should) add the checks to
> checkcommands.cfg, or to services.cfg. 
> 
> There really isn't much documentation on how to configure the nagios
> to use the send_nsca data, but the documentation on how to send the
> checks using it is quite good.  
> 

You must define a host and a service that matches what NSCA will be
sending or Nagios will ignore the passive check entirely. Since Nagios
will not be checking these services directly (I presume), you can set an
arbitrary check_command but set the check_period to NONE or
active_checks_enabled to 0. The documentation on Passive Checks and
Distributed Monitoring should help clear things up for you.

--
Marc


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