Distributed Monitoring problem

[Bryan Loniewski]

On Thu, 19 May 2005 nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

>Message: 23
>Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:45:27 +0200
>From: Julien DEHEE <julien at avedya.com>
>Reply-To: julien at avedya.com
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Nagios-users] Distributed Monitoring problem
>
>Hi,
>
>I need to check a service from a central server AND a distributed server.
>The problem is :
>If the distributed server sees the service as "critical", it will send a 
>passive check to the central server.
>At the same time, if the central server sees the same service as "OK", 
>it will override the passive check and set the service as 'OK'.

In nagios this is called flapping.

>
>Can I tell the central server not to override passive checks from 
>distributed servers ? It's said in the documentation that checks on the 
>central server must be disabled, but I need to check the service on both 
>sides. Any Idea ?

How bout' just create 2 semi-identical looking services but give them different 
descriptions.. one service being an active check performed by the central server 
and the other being a passive check performed by the distributed server. That way 
you will know what the true result is from each check.

>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Julien DEHEE.


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Bryan Loniewski
Rutgers University
NBCS - Systems Programmer


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