Disabling GIF image for passive checks

[Andrew Laden]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Marc Powell
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:46 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Disabling GIF image for passive checks
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users- 
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Kyle Tucker
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:41 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Disabling GIF image for passive checks
> > 
> > Hey all,
> > 	I've set up distributed servers and a surprising and unwanted 
> > by-product of this setup is the passive GIF image placed 
> against all 
> > passive service checks on the web pages 
> (images/passiveonly.gif). I'd 
> > like to disable this, firstly because I don't need to visually see 
> > each and every passive check, but mostly because each line is now 
> > twice the height it was and I've lost a lot of screen info 
> per page. I 
> > looked online and in the configs but don't see any info on 
> this. And 
> > the mailing list archive search server seems to be down. Do 
> I need to 
> > take this IMG line out of cgi/status.c? Will this cause any 
> > undesireable HTML-based side effects? Thanks.
> 
> I use the following in our service definitions on the central host --
> 
> active_checks_enabled           1       ; Active service checks are
> enabled
> passive_checks_enabled          1       ; Passive service checks are
> enabled/accepted
> check_period                    none
> 
> 
> With active checks enabled the icon is not presented. The 
> check_period of 'none' prevents them from actually being 
> executed by the host receiving the passive checks.

That will also have the by-product of blocking freshness checks from
running, which are generally a good thing with passive checks.


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