how to get passive checks to work

[Folkert van Heusden]

Never mind: found the problem.
I had "max_check_attempts" still at 4. Set it to 1 and now it
immediately reacts.


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:36:11PM +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In my services.cfg I have:
> define service {
>         use             generic-service
>         host_name       p630
>         service_description     manual call
>         contact_groups  aix-admins
>         active_checks_enabled   0
>         passive_checks_enabled  1
>         check_command   check_dummy
>         }
> 
> Now in my php script I send the following string (tried both with and
> without terminating \n) to the pipe /var/lib/nagios2/rw/nagios.cmd ;
> [1205935241] PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;p630;manual call;2;test
> 
> The problem now is: no action is performed! The event does not show up
> in the logfile (/var/log/nagios2/nagios.log) and also no e-mail is sent
> (no sms is send either).
> 
> Configfile:
> mmc:/etc/nagios2# grep passive nagios.cfg | grep -v "^#"
> log_passive_checks=1
> accept_passive_service_checks=1
> accept_passive_host_checks=1
> 
> 
> Folkert van Heusden
> 
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