Distributed Nagios and scheduling service check from the central server

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Dustin Kamper
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:23 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Distributed Nagios and scheduling service
check
> from the central server
> 
> I have a distributed Nagios setup I'm testing with 2 distributed
servers
> and 1 central server.  The distributed servers run all checks and send
> the results to the central server.  The central server is configured
to
> accept passive service checks and check for freshness.  Active checks
> are turned off on the central server.
> 
> With active checks turned off, it seems that I cannot schedule a check
> of services from the central server web page.  If I turn on active
> checks (to allow a forced scheduled check) then the checks are run per
> normal_check_interval, which I don't want.  So, I have increased the
> normal_check_interval to a very high number to make active check only
> run occasionally, but this will effect the freshness checking.
Nothing
> seems to be working the way I need it to.

Set your check_period to none. Active checks will never happen except
for the forced freshness check. You can then force an active check from
the GUI for any host or service that you want and it will be executed.
Scheduled checks will not happen. See below.
> 
> Is there a way to be able to manually schedule a check of services
from
> the central server in a distributed setup?  I don't want active checks
> performed from the central server but I would like freshness checking
to
> be performed.

There is no mechanism to send an 'active check request' from a central
server to the distributed servers. Nagios itself isn't even aware that
they exist let alone how to communicate with them. It just knows that it
got a passive check, not where it came from. You either need to use the
GUI on the distributed servers to force the check, use the GUI on the
central server and have the check execute from there or create your own
mechanism to send/execute the request on your distributed machines.

--
Marc


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