Latching state on failure

[Dan Urist]

Is there a way to configure a nagios service so that the state is permanently 
latched to NOT_OK when a failure is detected?

What I am trying to do is this: I use net-snmp to monitor a bunch of stuff on 
some solaris machines, and I have nagios poll the snmp daemon with 
check_snmp. I've written a script that is run by the net-snmp exec MIB that 
checks for SCSI errors in the system log file. It only checks for new entries 
in the log file since the last time it ran. What I'd like to do is have this 
polled by nagios, and if it finds an error latch the state of that service to 
NOT_OK until I manually submit a passive check result. 

I guess I could do this with passive checks or snmp traps, but it would be a 
lot simpler to have nagios run the checks since I'm already using it to 
monitor the other stuff through snmp.

Thanks,
Dan Urist
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Dan Urist
durist at euler.cr.usgs.gov


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