How to explain active host checks to boss

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of mark.potter at academy.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:53 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to explain active host checks to boss
> 
> 
> nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 02/13/2008
11:29:06
> AM:


> That is precisely the sort of explanation I needed. I think I have the
> convincing done but there seems to be some concern about how this will
> show up on tac.cgi and in other places. It will show as disabled if I
am
> not mistaken. I think management may be concerned about this for
reasons
> only management understands. Under the Hosts bar in tac.cgi it will
show
> all 309 hosts as being disabled correct? Since the documentation

It won't if you leave 'active_checks_enabled 1' but do not specify the
check_interval directive (at all). If one service on the host is OK, the
host will be assumed to be and displayed as OK too. There is a
difference between disabling host checks and not scheduling them. With
'active_checks_enabled 0', even the on-demand check won't happen so they
would show as disabled. Note that this entire logic revolves around the
fact that you must have at least one service defined for every host.

> recommends disabling active host checks for obvious reasons why is
this
> shown on tac.cgi under Hosts and again under Active Checks (in red
> nonetheless). I almost wish I understood management at this point...

I'm sure they don't want it to appear that they're not monitoring those
hosts or there is some otherwise unhandled problem that the big red X
implies when they show off the spiffy monitoring system to people
not-in-the-know.

--
Marc


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