send_nsca configuration confusion

[Paul L. Allen]

Jason Martin writes: 

> The concept of a check command has no real meaning in the context of 
> passive checks.

Yes it does, in some situations.  If a passive check goes stale then
the corresponding active check is run.  If you're using NCSA to tunnel
through a firewall then the active check should be a dummy that returns
a critical state.  But if you're using NCSA to take the load off the
central server or for failover monitoring then the active check should
be the real thing - that way if the machine submitting passive checks
falls over the checks are still performed. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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