Expiration of passive check results

[C. Bensend]

>  - Is it possible in NAGIOS, to let the result of a passive check ,
> 'expire' after a given time period ?
>    (this could be used for errors, which are considered less
> important, and are being considered 'dead weight' for
>     the time being).
>
>    I mean if I a get a CRITICAL  (passive) test result, from outside,
> I would like NAGIOS to start a timer,
>   and set the alert to OK after a give time.
>   Now 'external' workarounds such as cron jobs may apply, but I wonder
> wether this can be handled from within NAGIOS.

Take a spin through the Nagios documentation and look at the
information about freshness checking.

You can easily tell Nagios to check freshness on a passive service
every X minutes, and when it does run an active check.  That active
check can be anything, including using check_dummy to set the return
value to be 0 (OK) with the message of your choice.

Benny


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