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<DIV><SPAN class=211180121-22032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
don't use any passive checking, so forgive me if I'm wrong.. but can't you set
the time period on the services to be that of when you want them
checked?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> David Barnett
[mailto:DavidB@etobin.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 22, 2004 3:58
PM<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Nagios-users] freshness checking of passive devices<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am using Nagios to monitor some
workstations that are active from 9 to 5 but shut down otherwise. I am
monitoring these workstations passively using the NSCA add-on and I check the
freshness by having a check command like in the documentation. However,
when the workstations shut down at 5, the passive checks stop coming, as they
should. After 30 minutes of no passive checks, Nagios runs the active
check of check_freshness.sh, and reports the services as critical because they
haven’t checked in for 30 minutes. I don’t want it to run this check
because the device should be off. Also, when the workstations start up
in the morning and check in, I get notifications saying the services have
recovered, when in reality they never really went down in the first
place. Is there way to not have it run the active check after a certain
time? Or in the script is there a way to check the current time and not
return anything if it isn’t between 9 and 5? Thanks for any
help.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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