freshness checking of passive devices

[Jack Doyle]

I don't use any passive checking, so forgive me if I'm wrong.. but can't
you set the time period on the services to be that of when you want them
checked?
 
 
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John N. Doyle, Network+ Certified Professional
Systems Operations Specialist
Lewis-Gale Clinic Information Systems
 
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	-----Original Message-----
	From: David Barnett [mailto:DavidB at etobin.com] 
	Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 3:58 PM
	To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: [Nagios-users] freshness checking of passive devices
	
	

	I am using Nagios to monitor some workstations that are active
from 9 to 5 but shut down otherwise.  I am monitoring these workstations
passively using the NSCA add-on and I check the freshness by having a
check command like in the documentation.  However, when the workstations
shut down at 5, the passive checks stop coming, as they should.  After
30 minutes of no passive checks, Nagios runs the active check of
check_freshness.sh, and reports the services as critical because they
haven't checked in for 30 minutes.  I don't want it to run this check
because the device should be off.  Also, when the workstations start up
in the morning and check in, I get notifications saying the services
have recovered, when in reality they never really went down in the first
place.  Is there way to not have it run the active check after a certain
time?  Or in the script is there a way to check the current time and not
return anything if it isn't between 9 and 5?  Thanks for any help.

	 

	David

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