nsca query

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Barton, Murray M. wrote:

> I have setup nsca and I can send alerts to nagios OK.  Here is the
> problem I have-
>
> 1. send critical/warning alert to nagios
> 2. confirm alert is displayed
> 3. send OK status to nagios
> 4. confirm nagios displays status OK
> 5. time passes
> 6. nagios displays the item in warning status with alarm message from 1.
> previously.
>
>
> I have pasted the section out of the nagios services.cfg below (it's
> basically straight out of the doco...)

Did you check out the passive mode section of the manual
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/passivechecks.html ?

> What I really want nagios to do at point 6 is to keep on displaying
> what-ever it was sent last until I send it something else.  (I have over
> 200 hosts with many services and I don't want all of them polling nagios
> every x minutes).  Is there are a configuration option to do thist?

Unless I am mistaken this should the default with your config. But I 
suggest you put everything in your service definition first before you 
start playing with templates.

And which Nagios version are you running?

Hugo.

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