force "CURRENT SERVICE STATE" check

[Andreas Ericsson]

Leonardo Henrique Machado wrote:
> I noticed that nagios does a check on every services and hosts and
> outputs in the following format:
> ----------
> [1106359200] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: comp1;Usuarios;OK;HARD;1;Output
> [1106359200] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: comp2;Usuarios;OK;HARD;1;Output
> [1106359200] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: comp3;Usuarios;OK;HARD;1;Output
> [1106359200] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: comp4;Usuarios;OK;HARD;1;Output
> [1106359200] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: comp5;Usuarios;OK;HARD;1;Output
> -----------
> 
> I have 2 questions about it:
> 
> 1- When does CURRENT SERVICE STATE check occurs? At startup?

Yes.

> 2- How can I force nagios to output the CURRENT SERVICE STATE every 5
> minutes and redirect the output to file?
> 

Why would you want to? Nagios writes it every time the state changes and 
every time it rotates its logs. It's possible through a loadable 
NEB-module or some such, I expect.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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