problem with passive checks

[Jason Martin]

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This sounds like a problem with freshness checking; what do you have 
that set to?

- -Jason Martin
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Jon Neher wrote:

> 
> We are running a combination of active and passive service checks (via
> nsca) and have run into a weird problem.  When starting up nagios
> with no previous state saved, it schedules active service checks for
> our passive service checks even though active_checks_enabled is
> explicity set to 0 in all the service def's for our passive checks.
> 
> Since nagios makes us supply a "dummy" check_command for each of
> our passive service definitions, when this scheduled active check runs,
> it inevitably fails since it's a dummy command.  This caused a flurry
> of "SOFT" active checks for the service a wreaks havok with our
> notifications and status screens since when ever an active check
> fails, a critical problem is flagged for the service, then as the
> passive checks come in,  it looks OK for a while, until another one
> fo the "SOFT" active checks returns an error.
> 
> Does anyone know a way around this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon
> 
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