Nagios 2.0 - Force a host check ever 2 mins.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Chris Stankaitis wrote:
> 
> Hello All, a quick question about Passive host checks.
> 
> I am setting up a distributed Nagios, and am using passive host checks 
> to monitor hosts behind my FW.  the passive host check and the Obsessive 
> -ness work fine however I am getting into an issue.
> 
> on the external Nagios box (the one that receives all the nsca 
> service/host checks from the internal Nagios) I have freshness checking 
> turned on for the host as well as the services... the problem is because 
> of the default Nagios behaviour host checks are only run if there are 
> service problems...
> 
> So thus I am in the spot where all my services are OK on the box but the 
> host's are critical because of freshness checking.
> 
> Is there a way that I can get my internal Nagios to run Host Checks for 
> the internal boxes every X mins like it would for a service check.. or 
> is there another good way to deal with this?
> 

In 2.0 there is. Read the docs on host object configuration and the main 
config file for it. Be warned though that forcing host checks can prove 
to be a major slowdown as they aren't done in parallell.

> --Chris
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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