Active Host Checks on Nagios 2.5

Patrick Morris patrick.morris at hp.com
Sat May 12 00:53:16 CEST 2007


On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 18:31 -0400, Andrew Tjang wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a problem where Nagios doesn't execute the active host checks at
> all. My system is set up in the following way:
> 
> I have about 1000 machines w/ their services set to disable active
> check, and get all state info from an external command file (passive
> checks).
> 
> To this I added 2 hosts w/ services in which I've enabled active checks,
> and provided a check command (config below). What happens is the
> services get actively checked and updated, but Nagios assumes the host
> is up (I guess because the services are returning values), and never
> executes the host check. This is troubling because the host check
> provides me with important data.

This is normal nagios behavior.  If you want the data a host check would
provide even when there are no service state changes (which is the only
condition under which host checks will normally run), you should
probably consider running it also as a service check.


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