status.cgi sounds for alerts on passive service checks

Ethan Galstad nagios at nagios.org
Sun Apr 13 20:31:58 CEST 2008


Mike Dorman wrote:
> We use Opsview in our environment, with distributed pollers that are
> separate from the master server, where the UI lives.  So from the
> master’s perspective, all service checks are passive checks, because
> they are reported in by the poller servers.
> 
>  
> 
> As a result, we aren’t getting any service alert sounds on status.cgi
> because the logic checks servicestatus->checks_enabled and ignores
> servicestatus->accept_passive_service_checks
> 
>  
> 
> I am not sure if that was by design or not.  But I’ve patched
> cgi/status.c to also play sounds for alerts generated by passive service
> checks as well.
> 
>  
> 
> All I did was update the logic to check
> (servicestatus->checks_enabled==TRUE ||
> servicestatus->accept_passive_service_checks==TRUE) instead of just the
> first one.
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve submitted this patch to the Opsview community, and am also posting
> it here in case there is interest in integrating it into upstream Nagios.
> 
>  
> 
> The patch is against Nagios 2.9, which is a bit old.  But I looked at
> the latest code in CVS and I think the patch will work there, too.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 

Thanks Mike - Patch will be in 3.x CVS branch shortly.



Ethan Galstad
Nagios Developer
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