passive checks and check_command

[tvilliers]

Hi,

I have gone through the docs, faqs and both the users and the devel 
groups, and have this question:

Nagios requires that "check_command" exists in any defined service. With
passive services, a "check_command" is an anomaly, as the checking is really
done by the main engine at the specified command_check_interval in the 
main config file. 

Setting the check_command to "" (ie, a blank raw command line) is one way
to circumvent the requirement, but this is not mentioned explicitly in the
docs. Is this correct, and more importantly, why have such a requirement 
in the first place with passive services?

Tielman de Villiers




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