Nagios CRASHING - Passive External Commands

[Jim Mozley]

Fred Reimers wrote:


> Good idea.  I would also have to do my own status checking to see if the results are a change in status between ok,warning,critical, which is possible.
> 
> I was hoping to use the freshness checking feature of Nagios to ensure that the background processes are working.  
> 
> I'm also wondering how this would affect the host status if a host only has passive checks associated with it that are not being updated regularly?

You could use the freshness checking to address this, if I understand 
correctly.

> 
> This worked fine for 16 hours and then stopped.  I did rewrite the routine to add some delay between writes to the command file and changed the nagios.cmd option to check the command file as often as possible.  It's worked for a couple of cycles now.

I've had problems with passive checks and I am using a delay between 
submissions. It not ideal, or scalable and I still get a problem with 
over lapping submissions of passive checks.

Jim


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