Nagios v3.5.0 transitioning immediately to a HARD state upon host problem

[C. Bensend]

> diff -uNp nagios-updated.cfg nagios.cfg
> --- nagios-updated.cfg  Sat May 25 09:05:09 2013
> +++ nagios.cfg  Sat May 25 09:02:37 2013
> @@ -981,9 +981,9 @@ translate_passive_host_checks=0
>
>  # PASSIVE HOST CHECKS ARE SOFT OPTION
>  # This determines whether or not Nagios will treat passive host
> -# checks as being HARD or SOFT.  By default, a single passive host
> -# check result will put a host into an immediate HARD state type.
> -# This can be changed by enabling this option.
> +# checks as being HARD or SOFT.  By default, a passive host check
> +# result will put a host into a HARD state type.  This can be changed
> +# by enabling this option.
>  # Values: 0 = passive checks are HARD, 1 = passive checks are SOFT
>
>  passive_host_checks_are_soft=0
>
>
> Does that make sense?  If I had read something like that, it would
> have been immediately clear to me what was happening.
>
> Thank you so much, Andreas!  On to the next problem with the
> upgrade (something that can wait until next week)...

Sorry, too little caffeine too early, got the files reversed.  Here's
the right diff:

diff -uNp nagios.cfg nagios-updated.cfg
--- nagios.cfg  Sat May 25 10:25:34 2013
+++ nagios-updated.cfg  Sat May 25 10:27:12 2013
@@ -981,9 +981,9 @@ translate_passive_host_checks=0

 # PASSIVE HOST CHECKS ARE SOFT OPTION
 # This determines whether or not Nagios will treat passive host
-# checks as being HARD or SOFT.  By default, a passive host check
-# result will put a host into a HARD state type.  This can be changed
-# by enabling this option.
+# checks as being HARD or SOFT.  By default, a single passive host
+# check result will put a host into an immediate HARD state type.
+# This can be changed by enabling this option.
 # Values: 0 = passive checks are HARD, 1 = passive checks are SOFT

 passive_host_checks_are_soft=0



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