Active and Passive checks of the same service

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 22/08/08 03:45 PM, Taylor Dondich wrote:
> So a nice round-about way of doing it would be to disable active
> checks on the service initially.  Then when your passive check script
> detects a problem, not only does it send nagios a passive check
> RESULT, but it also sends a command to enable active checks on that
> service.  Then your active check script, when it determines the
> problem has resolved itself, could also send nagios itself a command
> to disable active checks on that service.  Fun way to do it.
> 
> Information on the commands you need, their description, and sample
> shell scripts which execute them, are at:
> 
> http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php
> 

I would rather implement the "adaptive monitoring" part using
eventhandlers. I there's even a section in Nagios doc about adaptive
monitoring.

Don't miss the list of external commands neither; they're available here:
http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/

Some of them are very useful for altering the monitoring logic.

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Thomas
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