passice check results

[Martinus Nel]

Dear all,

I need assistance with a minor problem please.

I have set up distributed monitoring.  I have a main monitoring server which
does 99% of the monitoring with active checks.  There is however 2 servers on an
outside network, thus I read through the documentation to see what to do.

I don't have any *problems* as such, just the following 2 things that is bothering 
me...

1) As I have a lot of hosts defined on my main server, I use the following to 
check ping for me:

# Service definition
define service{
         use                             generic-service         ; Name of service 
template to use

         host_name                       *
         service_description             PING
  ...

Now, this has one minor draw back, it fails on trying to ping the 2 servers on the 
outside world.


2) The other issue that I have is that the 'host' is reported as down, since the 
'check-host-alive' script is active I assume.  I don't know how to feed it passive 
data.  Or should I take that line out and let it assume the host is up based on 
whether the services is running ?


Any help appreciated.

-- 
Martinus Nel
System Administrator
Scarce Skills Ltd.
http://www.scarceskills.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1633 225461

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