Set Host Status from Distributed Monitoring Server

[Morris, Patrick]

tktucker at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello! Pardon me if this is already covered somewhere in the 
> documentation. I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.
>
> I have a working Nagios 3.2.0 environment in a distributed configuration.
> One of my environments lives behind a firewall that is blocking icmp 
> traffic from the central server. In that
> same environment I have a remote Nagios node that is successfully 
> sending service checks backs to the central server.
> All of the nodes behind this firewall are reporting "DOWN" on the 
> central server nagios page, but their service checks are reporting 
> "OK". Is their a configuration
> setting available so that the central server will report these nodes 
> as UP if it receives a successful check from the remote monitoring node?
> The "translate_passive_host_checks" options sounds like it should 
> work, but it doesn't. I understand I can remove the check_command from 
> the host.cfg, but
> the host status will be a Pending status.
>
> Any suggestions? Thank you in advance for your time and assistance.

translate_passive_host_checks only works if you send them.  Are you?

I suspect whatever method you're using to send service check results 
upstream is only being used for service checks, and you may need to 
modify it to also send service check results.

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