passive host - distributed monitoring

[william(at)elan.net]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Marco Supino wrote:

> one more thing, while working in distributed setup, i noticed that a
> service freshness checking is not don't if check_period is NONE, i think
> this is problematic, because if i disable active checks, the services
> will show as "Disabled" in the TAC, if i enable checks, it will run
> checks even if results are fresh, but my remote hosts are unreachable
> from the "master" nagios, I have a patch for it, if you think this is an
> issue, or maybe add a config option to "force freshness even if out of
> check_period"

Setting check_period to NONE is a way to disable active host checks
so that you'd be able to execute more services. You can also disable
active host checks with 'active_checks_enable 0' but the issue then
is when you have dependencies and you this way disable router it'll
show up as an issue under "network outages". Personally I think its
a bug but perhaps the design idea was to force people to notice when
they disable device that is a parent for number of others systems -
perhaps Ethan can clarify if that is what its supposed to be or not?

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net

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