passive checks via smtp? or similar

[Matt Johnson]

> Use passive checks and freshness checks. Have the
> email address you send
> to on your Nagios machine execute a script that
> simply submits the
> service OK external command to Nagios via the
> command pipe as a passive
> check. Use freshness checks to verify you've
> received a result in a
> timely manner.

Thanks for this. I have it working. Sorted.

To get the pipe to work, I had to mess with
permissions. I was getting problems with using the
nagios.cmd pipe. I tried to change the user that exim
ran the aliases/pipe command as, but it stopped the
aliases pipe working altogether. The way round it was
to chmod 777 /var/run/nagios/nagios.cmd. There must be
a more elegant solution (especially as I have to chmod
it again after every service restart).

Anyways - *much* thanks for the pointers. It's sorted
my situation.
--
Matt


	
	
		
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