New check script: check_nsca

[Thomas Sluyter]

On 16 Aug, 2006, at 17:25, Marc Powell wrote:

> It's a useful plugin to be sure but doesn't Freshness Checking address
> this problem?
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/freshness.html

Of course you're completely right. But:
1) It's better to be safe than sorry. Double checking is always nice.
2) There are situations where freshness checking isn't used.

To given an example of number 2:
At my current client "they" never set up Nagios to use freshness  
checking, except in a rare few occasions (say twenty out of a  
thousand-plus service checks). I guess it was down to inexperience on  
the side of the guy who set it up... Whatev'...

But now we're in the situation where we have at least a hundred  
service checks that are completely out of whack. Not fresh at all. We  
-could- turn on freshness checking for the lot, but can you imagine  
management's panic when they see the huge amount of Criticals rolling  
in? No... We'd rather fix things gradually and use this check as a  
stopgap solution. That way we'll still notice it if NSCA borks, while  
still keeping a "clean" status screen (even if it is all one big  
lie :p).

Cheers!


Thomas

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