Setting inital state of passive services

[Marc Powell]

Nagios does not natively support the behavior you are looking for and as
you've surmised, it will keep the services in a pending state until it
receives some sort of check result for that service. It seems to me that
you have several options to work with though. First, and easiest if you
are OK with the services being in a pending state is to specify an
initial state of OK during the report generation phase. Secondly, you
could specify a service check for those services that simply returns an
OK and give it a really long normal_check_interval. You may need to play
with the service_interleave_factor to get the checks to execute quickly.
A final option and probably more robust would be to specify a service
check that looks at the status.sav file to see if the service is
currently in a PENDING state and submit an OK result if so. That check
could execute at a more normal interval and shouldn't be much of an
impact at all.

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Cannell [mailto:dennis.cannell at itouch.ie]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:11 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Setting inital state of passive services
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have Nagios up and running recieving SNMP traps via passive services
> (scheduled on no-time-periods, to work around that "disabled"
indicator in
> the TAC Overview)
> 
> I would like to set inital states of OK for each of the passive SNMP
trap
> services.  I would prefer them to be in that state rather than
"pending".
> 
> The only way to do this seems to be to mannually, via the GUI, supply
OK
> passive check results for the services.  Is there a way to get Nagios
to
> automatically create these services with OK state on startup
> automatically?
> I've scoured the service object config...
> 
> I'm using check_dummy returning 0 (OK) as a service check, but seeing
as
> it
> is never actually scheduled, nothing will return.
> 
> I've also tried changing the service to a valid time period and put
both
> 'active_checks_enabled 0' and 'passive_checks_enabled 1' in but the
> service
> still stays as "pending".
> 
> The only thing I have thought of so far is changing the service to
retain
> state information and then submitting check results by hand.  Ideally
I
> would like the OK to be assumed without having to submit results by
hand
> thou.
> 
> The whole reason for this is because availability and associated
reports
> show the services as spending 99% of their time in undetermined time.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any leads anyone might have.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
> 
> 
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