Submitting active check results?

[Jason Martin]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:11:27AM -0500, Marc Powell wrote:
> An active check is one in which the host or service check_command is run
> by nagios itself. You can force an active check to happen by
> re-scheduling the next check of the service.
> 
> A passive check is one in which the host or service state is determined
> by another program (submitting a passive result via the GUI, NSCA, a
> cron job or other external process). In this case, nagios isn't actively
> determining the state of the service itself but is simply taking the
> results of a PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT directive in the external
> command file at face value. Passive checks are most often utilized for a
> distributed monitoring configuration but can have other uses like SNMP
> trap handling, etc.
> 
I'd like to add that there is no penalty for submitting a
passive check result for a service that performs active checks
-- it'll be treated as if nagios performed the check itself.

-JM
-- 
Look out for #1. Don't step in #2 either.
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