Everything works! But I want more!

[Paul DeLong]

Ben Hyde wrote:

> That's only marginally different than what I was doing and I still get 
> a "Pending" label in my status map for my equivalent of some-hub.  I 
> guess my real question boils down to: "What is considered the 'right' 
> way to represent objects in my status map that can not be actively or 
> passively monitored."
>
> Possibly the answer is the above and I should just learn to think of  
> the "Pending" label as denoting that no useful info is available for 
> this component.

Just take Mark Nagel's idea a little bit further, and add a dummy 
service to it (using /bin/true or check_ok as your service check, for 
instance).

The host will never get out of a pending state, because its child 
service will never go non-OK (it won't ping the host until any of its 
services go down).  If you want to force it to get out of the pending 
state, try using "/bin/false" (or an equivalent) as the service check, 
restart Nagios, force the check; then make the service check 
"/bin/true"again, restart Nagios, and force the check.  And make sure 
you have state-retention turned-on.

Later,
Paul.




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