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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have NSCA configured on my Nagios host, and enabled the necessary plugins on NSClient++ to support NSCA, configure XINETD appropriately inside my NSClient config I have:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[NSCA Commands]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>my_cpu_check=checkCPU warn=80 crit=90 time=20m time=10s time=4<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>my_mem_check=checkMem MaxWarn=80% MaxCrit=90% ShowAll type=page<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is just for testing, I also have in my nagios.cfg:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>accept_passive_service_checks=1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>accept_passive_host_checks=1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In my NSClient Log I can see:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2010-06-24 12:48:44: debug:modules\NSCAAgent\NSCAThread.cpp:205: Executing (from NSCA): my_cpu_check<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2010-06-24 12:48:44: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1106: Injecting: checkCPU: warn=80, crit=90, time=20m, time=10s, time=4<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2010-06-24 12:48:44: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1142: Injected Result: OK 'OK CPU Load ok.'<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2010-06-24 12:48:44: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1143: Injected Performance Result: ''20m'=0%;80;90; '10s'=6%;80;90; '4'=0%;80;90; '<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2010-06-24 12:48:44: debug:modules\NSCAAgent\NSCAThread.cpp:205: Executing (from NSCA): my_mem_check<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2010-06-24 12:48:44: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1106: Injecting: checkMem: MaxWarn=80%, MaxCrit=90%, ShowAll, type=page<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2010-06-24 12:48:44: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1142: Injected Result: OK 'OK: page file: 8.82G'<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2010-06-24 12:48:44: debug:NSClient++.cpp:1143: Injected Performance Result: ''page file %'=45%;80;90; 'page file'=8.81G;15.6;17.59;0;19.5; '<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What I want to know is, until now I have been using active checks, and for some servers I want to use passive_checks as well, so that the server updates Nagios.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I have active checks defined within my Nagios installation such as:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>define service{<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> use generic-service<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> host_name van-mail01<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> service_description D - Disk Space<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> check_command check_nt_disk!D!98!99<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>}<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can I modify this to also read from the passive_check, and what would my [NSCA Commands] definition look like? Does the first part have to reflect the service description? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How does the information coming from the NSCA Client get mapped to my configured checks?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>
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