Setting up a passive check problem

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Lewis Getschel wrote:

> All-
>     After 8 months of tweaking our 1.2 system with active checks (that 
> work fine), I now find myself at a loss to setup a passive "service check".
> 
> I have 5 file servers in a "farm" that log themselves to a single syslog 
> file.
> I wrote a script that deals with that and can submit the passive result 
> to Nagios to be processed.
> 
> My problem _seems_ to be my understanding of the basic setup for a 
> passive service check.
> The docs say: "...service checks to Nagios, a service must have already 
> been defined in the object configuration file 
> <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configobject.html>"
> 
> What "check_command" does a passive service "need"? (it needs a 
> command???) I don't want nagios to _DO_ anything, just accept the 
> passive results from another process.
> 

All you need is an entry for the check_command field - it is not executed 
or verified if the service is passive.


-- 
-sg



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