active checks vs. passive checks

[Richard Gliebe]

On 3/11/10 2:27 PM Rick Mangus wrote:

Hi Rick,

> The checks are started by your server, nagios is not involved.  See
> above comment re: cron.  Your scripts will need to know the service
> name that they are updating on the nagios server, and almost nothing
> else about your nagios config.  The messages sent by NSCA have the
> format "$HOSTNAME\t$SERVICENAME\t$SERVICESTATEID\t$SERVICEOUTPUT|$PERFDATA"
>  This gives the nagios server enough information to identify which
> service on which host is being updated.

OK, this means for me:
on my app.server I don't need any nagios binaries like nagios-plugins, 
nagios.cmd, and so on.

EXAMPLE: outside of our nagios server, there is a little linux box and 
some color printers attached on there network ;-)
Now I want to check the color cartridges with snmp from the linux box in 
the outback.

In Nagios there is already the host_check for the printer(s) and 
service_checks for the color cartridges defined with passive_check_enabled.

Now I have to create as bash script to check the cartridges on the linux 
box, which will be run by hand, cron, at, ...

and the result will be sent by NSCA to the nagios Server.

My, maybe, last big question:

which output do I have generate from my script for nagios?

... or ...

do you have a simple example for me?
This will be great and you will be welcome, if you plan a turn to 
austria ;-)


>> The results will be send via NSCA from the app.server to the nagios
>> server. OK. this will be another story ;-)
>>
> 
> You have the right idea, here.
> 
>> Oh my god, send me a flashlight ...
>>
> 
> It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

thats my cruel fate ;-)

thanks in advance
Richard

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