Distributed Nagios / Service Definitions

[jeff vier]

Please reply to the mailing list (not just me) so that everyone may
benefit.

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:00 -0500, Rodney Caston wrote:
> So you made your central server's definitions all reference a
> check_command of "stale_service"  ?

correct.
(for the service definitions, to be completely explicit)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jeff vier [mailto:boinger at tradingtechnologies.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:58 PM
> To: Rodney Caston
> Cc: nagios-users
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed Nagios / Service Definitions
> 
> 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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