Dual call to NEB callback functions. (help)

[Ethan Galstad]

Whoops - sent this to the nagios-devel list by accident...

On 8 Mar 2005 at 6:29, Ethan Galstad wrote:

> This isn't a bug, but it is confusing, especially since I haven't
> started on the NEB documentation yet.  For active checks, you should
> be getting two callbacks for each check.  For passive checks, you get
> only one.
> 
> The key is to check the .type member of the data structure that is
> passed to the callback function.
> 
> If type==NEBTYPE_SERVICECHECK_INITIATE, the service check has just
> been initated (only for active checks).  This event is usually only
> useful if you want to track when a service checks gets executed.
> 
> If type==NEBTYPE_SERVICECHECK_PROCESSED, the data contains the 
> processed results of the service check.  This is probably what you're
> interested in. 
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> 
> On 8 Mar 2005 at 11:55, Haze wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I have been experimenting with writing an RRD based NEB module for
> > our Nagios2 clusters. Everything seemed to be going fine until I
> > noticed a number of extra calls to the NEB callback functions. In an
> > effort to track down the problem I have striped my Nagios config
> > files and the NEB module down to their bare minimum. (See attached
> > if you are interested).
> > 
> > The problem seems to be that even though I only register the
> > function once with 'neb_register_callback' it gets run twice for
> > each service in an 'interval_length'. I have tried this with both
> > the cvs snapshot and the 2.0b2 tar balls.
> > 
> > If someone enlightened in the ways of NEB modules has 5mins spare
> > and could have a look at the code/config and tell me if I am at
> > fault, more than likely, or if I have stumbled upon a bug.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Haze
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Ethan Galstad,
> Nagios Developer
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> Website: http://www.nagios.org
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> 
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