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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am using nagios 1.2 with nsca for monitoring
hosts on Windows and Unix. Thinks Wok Great !</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But as the feature of Passive Host Check is
Missing. Many alert ( Against Services) comes up !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As the Firewall doesn't allow anything to reach to
host. I devised my own hack to make it work .Here is what I did.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I devised a Shell script who checks
for service checks received within last n minutes and let
it run as host check ..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> So if there is no check received since
last n minutes then the alert will be fired .</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> It works fine As i have suppressed the
alerts to an extent. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The Above " hack" works fine as along as
Freshness check of the services of the host ( that has went down) is greater
than the Time at which next host check is scheduled otherwise the
same problem pops up again .</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Is there a way to schedule the host checks
separately ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the configuration and other documentation states
scheduling of Service check ... How to manipulate scheduling of host check
???</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in Advance,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sumit</FONT></DIV>
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