passive service checks, check that data is sent as it should

[Neil]

Hey guys, 

Is there any other advantage of passive checks against active checks other 
than firewall issues fix? 

Thanks. 

Ronneil
Marc Powell writes: 

> Gregor Bruhin <mailto:gregor.bruhin at netoxygen.ch> shared with us: 
> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> A host A is sending sending the info "I'm alive" every minute to host
>> B running nagios.  
>> 
>> Is there a way to check with nagios that host A sent at least one
>> time the keepalive infos during the last 5 minutes and if not
>> generate an alert ?  
>  
> 
> Yes indeed. It's freshness checking:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/freshness.html. You'll probably
> want to pay particular attention to the 'Working With Passive-Only
> Checks'. 
> 
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> Marc 
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