Passive host results & soft states?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mike Hamrick
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:51 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Passive host results & soft states?
> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Host A is a server which sends passive host/service results to host B
> via NSCA. When a single host check fails on host C (a machine
> monitored by host A) host A considers host C to be a SOFT state, where
> host B (the one that actually sends notifications) considers host C to
> be in a HARD state.  This causes me a lot of problems because often
> just one host check will fail, yet I still get a notification.

That's how passive host checks work --

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.devel/3714/focus=3733

--
Marc

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