Using passive-only plug-ins
Earl C. Ruby III
earl at switchmanagement.com
Wed Jul 7 19:49:22 CEST 2004
How do you set up a passive-only plug-in without having it show up with a big
red warning flag that says "SERVICE CHECKS DISABLED"?
According to the docs:
"If you only want passive results to be provided for a specific service (i.e.
active checks should not be performed), simply set the active_checks_enabled
member of the service definition to 0. This will prevent Nagios from ever
actively performing a check of the service. Make sure that the
passive_checks_enabled member of the service definition is set to 1. If it
isn't, Nagios won't process passive checks for the service!"
I have active_checks_enabled set to 0 and passive_checks_enabled set to 1.
This gives me a passive-only check -- no scheduled checks, status only
changes when an event comes in via nsca.
However, I also get a big red warning that says "SERVICE CHECKS DISABLED" on
this service check. Anyone using Nagios who sees that will automatically
think something is wrong and re-enable the check. Since Nagios requires a
check_command for every service, the "dummy" check I have in place gets
executed and its status value over-writes the valid status.
If I had a "dummy" check command that wouldn't alter the current status that
would work, or if there was some way of telling Nagios that "This is a
passive-only check and you should never ever try to do the active check --
don't warn me about it and don't give me the option to turn the active check
back on" -- that would work too.
Has anyone done this?
--
Earl C. Ruby III
Senior Systems Engineer / Developer
Switch Management
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