About a active plugin in local machine

[Harlan Richard C]

It would work just fine if you add another service check to ping to box.
That way you will find out if the service if up or down. Lot of the
larger monitoring systems work this way. Why check the or care about the
service state if nothing is changing. Just my 2 cents.  

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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Paul L.
Allen
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 7:42 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: About a active plugin in local machine

Daniel Szortyka writes: 

> I NEED a plugin that I can configure in a windows machine all the 
> services that I want to monitor (how memory and other executables).
> But this plugin has that to be executing in the windows machine, and 
> ONLY send a passive check to nagios when a Service change your state.

This is not a sensible way of doing it.  If a service fails, the plugin
sends a critical result, you know the service has failed.  If the
service recovers you get an OK result and you know the service has
recovered.  If the computer itself dies, you don't get any result at all
and so you continue to believe that the service is OK.  Normally with
passive checks you run them at periodic intervals and have Nagios check
if the result is stale (so if the computer you're monitoring dies Nagios
will eventually report the result as stale and flag it as critical) but
with your "only report if the service changes state" you can't do
staleness checks. 

I suggest you think again about why you want to do this. 

--
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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