[Nagios-users] Making passive checks notify like activechecks--race condition?

[Mark Plaksin]

"Morris, Patrick" <patrick.morris at hp.com> writes:

>> We want our passive checks to notify like active checks.  
>> What if we make a plugin which does nothing but report the 
>> current state (and description) of a service?  Define it like 
>> this in checkcommands.cfg:
>> define command{
>>     command_name   repeater
>>     command_line   $USER1$/repeater_homebrew $SERVICESTATEID$ 
>> $SERVICEOUTPUT$
>> }
>> 
>> and the plugin itself is brain dead:
>> --------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> 
>> exit=$1
>> shift
>> 
>> echo $*
>> exit $exit
>> --------------------
>> 
>> We run this plugin as an *active* check so that we get the 
>> notification behavior we want and then a passive check to 
>> actually check the service and submit results.
>
> I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish here, but passive checks
> *do* notify like active checks.
>
> Maybe you just need to set max_check_attempts to "1" in your service
> definition?

They notify once when the state changes but they don't continue to notify
like active checks do.  Either that or we're on drugs and have hosed up our
configuration :)

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