Semi-Distributed Monitoring - Checks from both main and remote servers

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ritchie, Josiah S.
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 12:54 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Semi-Distributed Monitoring - Checks from both
> main and remote servers
> 
> I have recently setup a remote nagios service to pass passive commands
> to my main server that also does some monitoring for itself. The
remote
> services are bouncing up and down because both servers are doing
checks
> and the main one can't get to it so reports "Critical".
> 
> I setup as directed in the documentation (nagios version1). Maybe I
> missed something, but it all looks right to me.
> 
> I have the main server setup with the remote service checks to accept
> passive checks and active checks are disabled using:
> 
> Active_checks_enabled 0
> 
> I have this in both an unregistered service template and in the
service
> itself (as a troubleshooting measure).
> 
> I confirmed, using tcpdump, that the main server is sending out the
> checks.
> 
> I have restarted nagios several times.
> 
> What am I missing?

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html

Retention Note Section. 

"It is important to point out that several directives in host and
service definitions may not be picked up by Nagios when you change them.
Host and service directives that can exhibit this behavior are marked
with an asterisk (*). The reason for this behavior is due to the fact
that Nagios chooses to honor values stored in the state retention file
over values found in the config files, assuming you have state retention
enabled on a program-wide basis."

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#service

active_checks_enabled *: 	This directive is used to determine
whether or not active checks of this service are enabled. Values: 0 =
disable active service checks, 1 = enable active service checks.


I leave it to you to read about retention and what you need to do to fix
it.

--
Marc


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