passive checks for non-24x7 hosts going staleoutside check_period

[Gareth Watson]

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> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Mark Wagner
> Sent: 15 April 2008 19:06
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] passive checks for non-24x7 hosts 
> going staleoutside check_period
> 
> I have a distributed set-up where the web interface server 
> never does any checks. Freshness checking is enabled on the 
> web interface server with a check command that will alert 
> that the service/host is stale.
> 
> Everything works fine except for those hosts that are not 
> monitored 24x7.
> 
> For example, services/hosts that are monitored 9am-5pm will 
> be reported as stale every morning at 9am. The service/host 
> goes stale on the active monitoring servers too, a 
> service/host check will be forced, and the result will be 
> sent to the web interface server at which point the web 
> interface server is happy again.
> 
> I would think that Nagios would not include time outside of 
> the check_period when calculating how fresh a service/host is 
> but that appears not to be the case. (Please correct me if I 
> am wrong.)
> 
> Does anybody have any tips on how to handle this situation?

How fortuitous, we were just chatting about setting up another Nagios
server using the passive check system at work yesterday.  I would also
be interested in hearing more about this issue if anyone has any further
information or advice.

Thanks,

Gareth.

> 
> I'm using Nagios v2.9.
> 
> --
> Mark Wagner <markwag at u.washington.edu>
> System Administrator, UW Medicine IT Services
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