Passive checks show "red" in tactical overview

[Jim Avery]

On 9 February 2010 18:53, David Krider <david at davidkrider.com> wrote:
> I have many services that are passively monitored. They have a
> check_command defined, but, like my SNMP trap catcher service, it only
> fires when it's time to check freshness.
>
> All these services show up as "X Services Disabled" in the "Active
> Checks" area of the tactical overview screen, as though this was a
> problem. However, this is normal, and I don't want to see any "red"
> areas on the overview. (I want _any_ red on that screen to mean,
> "PANIC!")
>
> Can anyone tell me how to make Nagios ignore this? Also, these same
> services have flapping detection disabled, so, same thing for that as
> well.

No, I think this is just how Nagios works.  I agree it would be nice
if the tactical overview would only show those services which are in a
state which is not 'as configured'.

> Or, rather, is the only way to get rid of this to go ahead and enable
> the active_check command, probably on a lengthy interval time?

I suppose you could, so long as the active check actually returned a
correct check result.  Personally I just don't use the tactical
overview screen very often.

I'm sorry I don't suppose that helps a great deal!

Cheers,

Jim

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