Unclear on mapping of passive checks to state changes

[Matt Pounsett]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> If I'm monitoring a logfile and see
> 
>     2004-02-07 door opened by skip without auth code
> 
> a passive check might report that condition.  How is that turned into a
> warning or critical condition?  That's presumably only going to occur one
> time though.  Since it's a report of a one-time event, not a long-term state
> change to the system, how is the system supposed to know when to change the
> state back to ok?

Whatever submits your result to Nagios would submit it as either a warning or
critical state -- that's up to you.  You can have it go immediately to a HARD
state by setting max_check_attempts to 1.  

As for returning to an OK state... you'll want to look at the 'volatile'
service check option.

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