Alert host down with passive check

[Greg Pangrazio]

Please keep the list on the replies so others can learn from this as well.

define service{
        use                     generic-service
        host_name              HOST
        service_description     Logged In users
        active_checks_enabled   0;
        passive_checks_enabled  1;
        check_freshness         1;
        freshness_threshold     600;
        check_command           check_stale!2!'This Service is stale'
        }

Greg Pangrazio





On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Rikard Dahlberg <rik.dahlberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> I've now edited nagios.cfg to use freshness and looked up the manual.. :)
> Would you mind giving me an example of the service and command? Mine still
> isn't working..
>
> Rikard
>
>> From: pangrazi at gmail.com
>> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:05:45 -0600
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Alert host down with passive check
>>
>> You are looking for "Freshness"
>>
>> check out http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/freshness.html
>>
>> I use this with all of my passive checks.
>>
>> Greg Pangrazio
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Rikard Dahlberg <ej_seg at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Heya guys!
>> >
>> > Is there any possible way to configure nagios to report host as DOWN, if
>> > nagios havn't got any passive checkresult within like 5 minutes?
>> > Can I change that somehow? For now, when a host dies in my current
>> > configuration, it actually doesn't report is as DOWN, since im using
>> > passive
>> > checks. But i want to set nagios to if i havn't got a new passive.-check
>> > result in 5 minutes, i want nagios to automaticly set it as DOWN...
>> >
>> > Any idea please? :)
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Rikard
>> >
>> >
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