bug in failover monitoring: script enable_active_service_checks

[Ethan Galstad]

Bogdan Sandu wrote:
> 
> hello
> I am using the latest 3.0.3 nagios and 1.4.12 nagios-plugins.
> I've set up 2 nagios servers running in failover monitoring mode as
> described in http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/redundancy.html
> Everything works ok except the script :
> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers/enable_active_service_checks
> It generates the command:
> [1221039159] START_EXECUTING_SERVICE_CHECKS
> and it is piped to /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd , but nagios does
> not start executing service checks.
> 
> Nagios is started with: execute_service_checks=0 as mentioned in the
> above documentation page.
> 
> The script enable_notifications works, and nagios is started with:
> enable_notifications=0

Whoops.  Bug in the sample event handlers.  The correct commands are:

START_EXECUTING_SVC_CHECKS

and

STOP_EXECUTING_SVC_CHECKS

I'll get this updated in CVS shortly.

> 
> P.S
> 
> there is also a small bug in contrib/eventhandlers/enable_notifications
> The last line should be:
> `$printfcmd "[%i] ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS;%i\n" $datetime $datetime >>
> $CommandFile`
> instead of:
> `printfcmd "[%i] ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS;%i\n" $datetime $datetime >>
> $CommandFile`
> 
> It is missing the $ sign at the beggining.
> 
> The other scripts: disable_notifications, disable_active_service_checks,
> enable_active_service_checks don't have this bug.

Thanks for the note.  This will be patched in CVS shortly.


- Ethan Galstad

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