Passive tests and notifications

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rossz Vamos-Wentworth
> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 12:32 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Passive tests and notifications
> 
> Yesterday I configured a couple of passive tests on one of my servers,
> disk space and the mysql process, to be specific.  Later that night I
> logged on to the status screen to check things and saw that the
passive
> tests were marked "OK", but they hadn't been updated for several hours
> even though the cronjob I set up was every 30 minutes.  I obviously
made
> some kind of mistake that I will deal with on monday (can't do
anything
> right now on the remote server because I recently changed the root
> password and can't remember what it is, :) so have to wait until I'm
in
> the office and can look it up).
> 
> What bothers me is I never received a notification.  How do I get
nagios
> to send out a notification or fall back to an active test if the
> information is stale?

Use freshness checking.

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

Marc


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