"pure" passive checks and nagios web interface

[Benoit Panizzon]

Am Montag, 23. August 2004 13.59 schrieb Stefan Giesen:
> Hi,
>
> is there a possibility to tell the Nagios webinterface (V1.2 on Debian
> woody) that a service is pure "passive", so it's perfectly OK for it to
> have active checks disabled?

> Has anyone a solution for this?

Hallo Stefan

This is a common situation and here's the solution I was told after asking the 
same questions a few weeks ago :-)

Define a Service (Or Template) including check_freshness and 
freshness_threshold.
Define check_period none for this service.
For this Service use the check_command check_dummy check.

So what happens now is:

As long as this Service gets passive check results it uses those result codes.
If there are no passive check results for the 'freshness' time, then nagios 
forces an active check using the check_dummy command.

Now this returns a configurable value like 'OK' 'warning' 'critical' or 
'unknown'.

I use 'unknown' as this shows the actual status and have nagios to send 
notifies on 'unknown' too.

Regards
-- 
Benoît Panizzon, <bp at imp.ch>
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