Disabling GIF image for passive checks

[Kyle Tucker]

> In order for freshness checks to work in 2.0 and up, you have to set as
> follows.
>         check_period                 24x7
>         passive_checks_enabled       1
>         active_checks_enabled        0     ; these are all passive checks
>         check_freshness              1
>         check_command                check-freshness-stale!"Service report
> not received within time period" 
>         freshness_threshold          1800     ; Set your own number here
> 
> (My "check-freshness-stale" returns 2, and send the arg as the string.)
> 
> This is a change in 2.0 and up. In 1.x, A freshness check would be run even
> of the service was outside the check period. In 2.x the freshness check will
> only be run if the service is in its check period.
> 
> This means you will get the annoying gif in the status.cgi. Such services
> being critical will also not show up in the tac cgi as an unhanded problem,
> but rather as a disabled problem. For GUI users, this can be very
> misleading. I hacked the tac.cgi to have them show up as unhandled problems.

This works great, thank you. My biggest concern now is when a distributed
server stops reporting such that a service becomes stale, it's going to happen 
to a couple hundred services and send out a correspondingly huge amount of 
email notifications. Any thoughts on how to limit this?  Would disabling 
notifications and just keeping tabs on the distributed server itself, perhaps
with parent hosting or service dependence, be a better approach? I ask as it's
my first Nagios implementation. Thanks.

-- 
- Kyle 
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