"pure" passive checks and nagios web interface
Jaap Hogenberg
jaap.hogenberg at marketxs.com
Mon Aug 23 16:11:40 CEST 2004
Stefan,
In this case, why don't you use the dummy check command
but set the check-period to "none" in services.cfg
Then you do not have to disable the active checks, leave them enabled as
they will never be run anyway.
Rgrds,
Jaap
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 13:59, Stefan Giesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a possibility to tell the Nagios webinterface (V1.2 on Debian
> woody) that a service is pure "passive", so it's perfectly OK for it to
> have active checks disabled?
>
> It's annoying if you've always something red on the Tactical Overview
> page (Active checks: "34 services disabled") and additionally something
> pink below "Services" ("34 services disabled") and something red on the
> service page itself ("Active checks: disabled").
>
> These services can't even be checked actively (it's a complete SMTP
> Roundtrip check which submits the passive result when it receives an
> eMail and is checked for freshness to determine the status of the
> service, so the check_command is set to a dummy which always returns a
> critical "No eMails received in X hours" result), so if I enalbe active
> checks, it would be instantly red...
>
> It would be great if the webinterface could be told to ignore passive
> only checks for the "active checks" column/field display.
>
> Has anyone a solution for this?
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
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