About a active plugin in local machine

[Matt Luettgen]

I would agree with this, accept I've seen many machines that were 'dead' and still responded to ping.


On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:53:39 -0500
"Harlan Richard C" <HarlanRichardC at JohnDeere.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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. 
> 
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