Freshness checking and a distributed Nagios system.

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 15/08/08 02:13 PM, Jonathan Call wrote:
> I did read through that section thoroughly. I set up the check on the
> central server and then disabled the check on the distributed server. I
> waited for the time limit to expire. I watch the central server set the
> next active check time to ~10 minutes after the last check time. But
> that time came and went and nothing happened.
> 
> Perhaps this is because I have active checks disabled globally (via
> nagios.cfg) on my central server instead of on a per host basis?

Most likely, since freshness checks are actually active checks. If you
use templates properly, disabling active checks on all hosts of the
central server should be a one-line change.

Also, depending on what you're trying to do you may want to use a
special check for freshness checking, like:

  command_line $USER1$/check_dummy 3 "Did not receive $SERVICEDESC$ results"

If you want to change the alert level and/or message depending on the
service you can pass it as arguments too; ex:

  command_name check_dummy
  command_line $USER1$/check_dummy $ARG1$ $ARG2$

And on the service:
  check_command check_dummy!1!"Did not receive $SERVICEDESC$ results"



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Thomas
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