About a active plugin in local machine

[Paul L. Allen]

Daniel Szortyka writes: 

> I NEED a plugin that I can configure in a windows machine all the
> services that I want to monitor (how memory and other executables).
> But this plugin has that to be executing in the windows machine, and
> ONLY send a passive check to nagios when a Service change your state.

This is not a sensible way of doing it.  If a service fails, the plugin
sends a critical result, you know the service has failed.  If the service
recovers you get an OK result and you know the service has recovered.  If
the computer itself dies, you don't get any result at all and so you
continue to believe that the service is OK.  Normally with passive checks
you run them at periodic intervals and have Nagios check if the result is
stale (so if the computer you're monitoring dies Nagios will eventually
report the result as stale and flag it as critical) but with your "only
report if the service changes state" you can't do staleness checks. 

I suggest you think again about why you want to do this. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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