Changing Service/host state Manualy (or script)

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 19/08/08 05:28 AM, Assaf Flatto wrote:
> Hello List.
> I have a peculiar situation .
> I have 987 servers I need to ping in a specific time of day and send a report about them at the end 
> of the time period ( that is no problem). 
> The problem starts due to the fact that the servers status does not change in the time when I am not 
> pinging them so in the next test cycle - their status hasn't changed and no notification is sent 
> out .
> 
> I need to change them so I will get a report of which are down and which are up.
> 
> The solution I use now is, prior to the real test time period I defined a second time period where I 
> run the check_dummy on all those server to set their status as OK ( no notification is sent for 
> this change). 
> Then I run the actual test and get the report .
> 
> Anyone got a more elegant way to solve this issue ?

Volatile services is likely what you're looking for. Every non-OK result
received will result in a notification. Those are usually set as passive
checks too, with freshness checking & check_dummy to reset the state
after some time (just for aesthetics - having stuff green in the web
interface).


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Thomas
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