problem with nagios

[Chris Stankaitis]

What you want to do is write a little 3 line shell script... I call my 
"notfresh.sh" and then set up a command to run that shell script when 
your freshness check happen... it's pretty much right in the Nagios 
Docs, I have mine go into an unknown state rather then a crit...

#!/bin/sh

echo "UNKNOWN: Have not received an update from server in quite some time!"
exit 3

What will happen is when it does a fresh check it will run the above 
script and put the service into an UNKNOWN state, you can change the 
state to whatever you want from the exit code.


- Chris



Jasmine Chua wrote:
> Hi all, I seem to be having a lot of problems with nagios and need some advise 
> on setting me the right path again. 
> 
> Problem 1 :
> 
> I have enabled freshness checking on my main central server.  
> Whenever services are down, my main central server seems to be doing active 
> checking on those hosts that are supposed to be passive. It is not supposed 
> to do it at all. These host status are supposed to be reported back by 
> distributed monitoring servers. And, I realised that the problem lies in the 
> default check-host-alive which is configured to be check_ping. However, by 
> removing the whole host check_command it means that the host is always assume 
> to be up. Which I dont want that, because I stll want to be able to know if 
> passive hosts are down. So what should I do? 
> 
> Problem 2: [ In reference to Dennis Cannell's post to nagios-users mail on 
> setting Initial state of passive services]
> 
> How do you schedule passive services to be on 'no-time-periods' to work around 
> the  "disabled" indicator in TAC overview? I have configured under each 
> passive services definition in the check_period to be set to 'none'  
> <timeperiod_name> . Is this how you do it? 
> 
> 

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Chris Stankaitis
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Datawire Communication Networks Inc.



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