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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>well you dont NEED a
check_command, or in the case of a service i believe it is called an
active_check_command... the manual tells you how to disable active_checks
on a global basis... you must ensure that passive checks are enabled
for the service on the central machine however, which will allow you
to receive in checks from your remote box... and the way I have it set up is to
run a freshness check every 10 minutes on the central server... if the service
is not fresh... then it has not been passivly updated in 10 minutes... this
fires my active check, which just calls a command that returns a critical -
service is stale notification... This is layed out nicely in the distributed
monitoring section of the manual...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Read this</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/distributed.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/distributed.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>from the heading <FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><STRONG><U>Central Server
Configuration</U></STRONG> to the bottom.</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
on behalf of Jonathan Baker<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 7/27/2005 12:03 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA
with Nagios<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't get it, though. If I define a service, it
has to have the same name as the remote host service definition (which is local
to itself). Fine. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But the service defined on my Nagios central
server (with passive_checks_enabled) also needs a check_command. What
should this be to get the results of a passive check?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
title=ssugar@proserveit.com href="mailto:ssugar@proserveit.com">Scott
Sugar</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jonathan@football1x2.com
href="mailto:jonathan@football1x2.com">Jonathan Baker</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 27, 2005 2:05
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users] NSCA with
Nagios</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>you have to have the proper
services and hosts defined in your services.cfg file and hosts.cfg file...
this means that the service description and host name for each service you are
passivly sending needs to be defined at your central server.
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>or... as ethan puts it...</FONT></DIV>
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<LI>The central server must have service definitions for <I>all services</I>
that are being monitored by all the distributed servers. Nagios will ignore
passive check results if they do not correspond to a service that has been
defined. </LI></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
on behalf of Jonathan Baker<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 7/27/2005 8:03
AM<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Nagios-users] NSCA with Nagios<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi there, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can only get the NRPE daemon working on one of
my eight machines, so will have to use NSCA for the others. I've got the NSCA
daemon running on my central Nagios host and have setup the send_nsca as part
of a cron job that sends new results every few minutes. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What do I have to setup in my services.cfg in
Nagios in order to display the results like regular Nagios services? The
documentation for NSCA isn't nearly as complete as the NRPE docs.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Little
help?</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>