Submitting active check results?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Kyle Tucker
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:55 AM
> To: Nagios Mailing List
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Submitting active check results?
> 
> Hi,
> 	I'm missing something here. In the extinfo.cgi page,
> all my active service checks on my central server have a link
> to submit "passive" service checks, which actually allow me to
> change the state of service checks and I assume the external
> command for this is PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT, true? Why is

Yes.

> there no corresponding active check command? Also, if I set the
> service to active_checks_enabled=1 and passive_checks_enabled=0,
> I don't have the ability to submit this result. So is an active
> service check also always a passive?

Active checks and passive checks are two different and independent ways
of providing status information to nagios.

An active check is one in which the host or service check_command is run
by nagios itself. You can force an active check to happen by
re-scheduling the next check of the service.

A passive check is one in which the host or service state is determined
by another program (submitting a passive result via the GUI, NSCA, a
cron job or other external process). In this case, nagios isn't actively
determining the state of the service itself but is simply taking the
results of a PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT directive in the external
command file at face value. Passive checks are most often utilized for a
distributed monitoring configuration but can have other uses like SNMP
trap handling, etc.

--
Marc


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language
that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast
and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory!
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null