About a active plugin in local machine

Daniel Szortyka sekuela at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 14:50:55 CEST 2005


It's simply,

I will have many other computers in other clients networks... My
nagios can't stay checking other networks... so I need that the other
computers send me your result states.

Have a way to do this? :'(

Thanks!
Daniel

On 6/22/05, Paul L. Allen <pla at softflare.com> wrote:
> 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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