Passive Checks using sen-ncsa

[Jason Martin]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:46:35PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> That's the way it's supposed to work. You might want to read the 
> documentation.
The big thing to keep in mind here is that Nagios is a service
monitor, not an Event Management System. A service monitor is
pre-configured with all the services it will watch. An EMS has
rules defined as to how to generically handle classes of events
and doesn't care about the specifics. 

Sending a passive check does not cause Nagios to generate a
service to match, instead you have to pre-configure it with the
details of that particular service. Passive checks without a
corresponding service are dropped.

So, if you want to randomly be able to send in alerts and have
them show up on a console you'll want an EMS. If you want a
system to watch your critical services then Nagios fits the
bill very well.

-Jason Martin
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