Echo nagios status?

[Spencer L Horn]

Thank you all for your help, I now have the bulk of it working tho i
still need to modify how my central server handles stale checks.

Thanks again,
Spencer

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:58, Marc Powell wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:21 PM, Paul L. Allen shared with us:
> 
> > Marc Powell writes:
> 
> > > I haven't been able to determine any real functional difference
> > > between the two different methods and routinely use the latter
> > > example. 
> > 
> > As I recall if the check goes stale then Nagios will try to perform
> > an the active check that you defined.  This is useful if you want
> > distributed monitoring to take the load off the central monitor but
> > want the central machine to take over if one of your distributed
> > monitors goes down.    
> 
> Presuming freshness checking is enabled... Also from the documentation
> on freshness checking "It is important to note that an active service
> check which is being forced because the service was detected as being
> "stale" gets executed even if active service checks are disabled on a
> program-wide or service-specific basis." This means that in addition to
> implementing either one of my suggestions, he would also need to disable
> freshness checking if he has it enabled to fully resolve his question.
> Thanks for pointing that out. The documentation is unclear as to whether
> freshness checking also ignores the time_period directive as well so my
> examples may still work as provided with it enabled.
> 
> > 
> > If the reason you have a machine submitting passive checks is because
> > an intervening firewall won't let you do active checks then you don't
> > want active checks enabled unless you want misleading error mesages.  
> 
> This seems to me to be irrelevant. He already recognizes that in his
> situation, active checks from Nagios aren't acceptable to him and the
> desired solution is the same either way. Also, there is no stipulation
> that the check_command on the central Nagios box must be the same as on
> the distributed machine or whatever is submitting the results. The only
> two pieces of information that must match are the host_name and
> service_description. If you were to see 'misleading error messages'
> because of this then I would say the installation wasn't thought through
> or implemented very well.
> 
> --
> Marc



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