Disabling GIF image for passive checks

[Kyle Tucker]

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Shipway [mailto:s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:08 PM
> > To: 'Andrew Laden'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Disabling GIF image for passive checks
> > 
> > > > With active checks enabled the icon is not presented. The
> > > check_period
> > > > of 'none' prevents them from actually being executed by the host 
> > > > receiving the passive checks.
> > > 
> > > That will also have the by-product of blocking freshness 
> > checks from 
> > > running, which are generally a good thing with passive checks.
> > 
> > Not the case.  Freshness checks are run no matter what the 
> > check_period and active_checks_enabled settings.  We use the 
> > 'check_period none' method here, and freshness checks 
> > (resetting to unknown is nothing in the last 10 mins) are 
> > definitely running. (Nagios 1.2)
> > 
> 
> That changed in 2.0 and up. (as per a recent mail thread)

Well this method solves my GIF issue, but now I am confused about
the freshness checks. The online docs seem to indicate that I want
freshness checks on the central server to ensure my distrubuted
servers haven't failed or for some other reason are not passively
reporting. What am I missing here? I'm running 2.0b5. Thanks.

-- 
- Kyle 
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