Distributed Nagios / Service Definitions

[jeff vier]

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 14:53 -0500, Rodney Caston wrote:
> In setting up a distributed nagios environment, the documents say the
> central server needs the host definitions and the service definitions of
> the devices.
> 
> We've added the host definitions without issue, however, when adding the
> service definitions, nagios wants a valid check_command.
> 
> This seems odd to me since the central server should not be running the
> check_command ever, this makes me think we're not doing this right.
> 
> Can someone who has set this up comment and or provide a sample service
> definition as it would appear on the central server (not the collector)

I called mine "stale_service".

All it does is, no matter what, echo "Service results are stale!" and
make the service critical.

this should only ever be spawned if its freshness threshold runs out.

it's actually a very important feature of the distributed system.



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