Freshness Checking

[Link King]

Anyone have any ideas about what I could be doing wrong here?

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>
> Ok, I've got a distributed server that I'm running a number of checks on
> for a remote location.  I've got nsca setup and things are all working
> appropriately with the exception of freshness checking.
>
> Since the central server can not actively run these checks I've done as
> outlined in the documentation and setup freshness checking and a
> service-is-stale script to let me know when I stop receiving info from the
> remote host.
>
> Problem is, no matter what I set the freshness_threshold to for a
> particular service I still get service alerts for stale results even
> though the results aren't stale.  I can actually see service alerts for
> stale results appear right after a succesful service check.  I'm hoping
> somebody can help me with my config.  Here's an exampe of one
> host/service check I've got.
>
> Remote server
> -------------
> hosts.cfg:
>
> define host{
>         name                    servers
>         host_name               server1
>         alias                   Name Server 1
>         address                 192.168.0.1
>         check_command           check-host-alive
>         max_check_attempts      5
>         notification_interval   30
>         notification_period     24x7
>         notification_options    d,u,r
>         }
>
> services.cfg:
>
> define service{
>         name                            check-dns
>         host_name                       server1
>         service_description             DNS
>         is_volatile                     0
>         check_period                    24x7
>         max_check_attempts              3
>         normal_check_interval           5
>         retry_check_interval            1
>         contact_groups                  ops
>         notification_interval           30
>         notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            c,r
>         check_command                   check_dns
>         }
>
> Central Server
> --------------
> hosts.cfg:
>
> define host{
>         name                    distributed
>         host_name               server1
>         alias                   Name Server 1
>         address                 192.168.0.1
>         parents                 router
>         max_check_attempts      3
>         notification_interval   30
>         notification_period     24x7
>         notification_options    d,u,r
>         }
>
> services.cfg:
>
> define service{
>         name                            service_distributed
>         host_name                       server1
>         service_description             DNS
>         is_volatile                     0
>         check_period                    24x7
>         max_check_attempts              3
>         normal_check_interval           5
>         retry_check_interval            1
>         contact_groups                  ops
>         notification_interval           30
>         notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            c,r
>         active_checks_enabled           0
>         passive_checks_enabled          1
>         check_freshness                 1
>         freshness_threshold             300
>         check_command                   service-is-stale
>         }
>
> checkcommands.cfg:
>
> define command{
>         command_name    service-is-stale
>         command_line    /usr/local/nagios/libexec/service-is-stale.sh
>         }
>
> service-is-stale.sh:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /bin/echo "CRITICAL: Service results are stale!"
>
> exit 2
>
>
> Link King
> king at kinger.net
>
>
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