Passive checks, freshness and notification.

[Jim Mozley]

Hi all,

I have a problem getting passive check notification working after I had set
it up for the first time. I could see the SERVICE ALERT in nagios.log from
the passive check but no SERVICE NOTIFICATIONS. The only way I could get it
working was to enable check_freshness. Then the notifications started. So my
configuration looked as below:

define service{
        name                            my-service
        active_checks_enabled           no
        passive_checks_enabled          1
        parallelize_check               1
        obsess_over_service             1
        check_freshness                 1
        freshness_threshold             86400
        notifications_enabled           1
        event_handler_enabled           1
        flap_detection_enabled          1
        process_perf_data               1
        retain_status_information       1
        retain_nonstatus_information    1
        register                        0
        is_volatile                     0
        check_period                    none
        max_check_attempts              1
        normal_check_interval           5
        retry_check_interval            1
        contact_groups                  some-group
        notification_interval           120
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_options            w,c,r
        }

define service{
        use             my-service         ; template
        host_name       myhost
        service_description             interface1
        check_command   check_ifoperstatus!35
        }

Today just over 24 hours after I got it working (note the
freshness_threshold) it has stopped working. If I turn check_freshness off
it now works, when it originally wouldn't work with check_freshness off.

So, I need to understand what I am doing wrong in configuring passive
checks. Any ideas what's wrong with the configuration?

Thanks,

Jim



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