<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:p="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:powerpoint" xmlns:a="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:access" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" xmlns:b="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:publisher" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:c="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:component:spreadsheet" xmlns:odc="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:odc" xmlns:oa="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:activation" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:q="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:rtc="http://microsoft.com/officenet/conferencing" xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:Repl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/repl/" xmlns:mt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/" xmlns:x2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2003/xml" xmlns:ppda="http://www.passport.com/NameSpace.xsd" xmlns:ois="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/ois/" xmlns:dir="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:dsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" xmlns:udc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:sub="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/2002/1/alerts/" xmlns:ec="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#" xmlns:sp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" xmlns:sps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:udcs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/soap" xmlns:udcxf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile" xmlns:udcp2p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/parttopart" xmlns:wf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/workflow/" xmlns:dsss="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig-setup" xmlns:dssi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig" xmlns:mdssi="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/digital-signature" xmlns:mver="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:mrels="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships" xmlns:spwp="http://microsoft.com/sharepoint/webpartpages" xmlns:ex12t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:ex12m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:pptsl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/SlideLibrary/" xmlns:spsl="http://microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/PublishedLinksService" xmlns:Z="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" xmlns:st="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=WordSection1> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>You’ll also probably want to set up freshness checking for this service, so that if the script stops sending in data, Nagios will take steps to manually scrape the info, or restart the script.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/freshness.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/freshness.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>-Gius<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'> <div> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jaden Bentley [mailto:jaden.bentley@gmail.com] <br> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:35 PM<br> <b>To:</b> Nagios Users List<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] randomize a service's check interval<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Jim Avery <<a href="mailto:jim@jimavery.me.uk">jim@jimavery.me.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>On 2 July 2010 00:56, Jaden Bentley <<a href="mailto:jaden.bentley@gmail.com">jaden.bentley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > The only idea I've had so far involves changing the service check interval<br> > to something large (say 60 minutes), as a 'fallback' in case of failure, and<br> > then having the service check itself re-schedule itself by sending nagios a<br> > command. I'm not sure that would work and it seems pretty ugly and I'm not<br> > sure if it would be that easy to implement (mostly because I haven't worked<br> > with manual nagios commands before).<br> > Can anyone think of a better way?<o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt; margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>You can set up the check as a passive check in Nagios. Run the check<o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal>from a similar looping script like you had before to do the random<br> timing stuff and have it send the result back to nagios either<br> directly using the command interface or using send_nsca and have nsca<br> submit the result to Nagios.<br> <br> See:<br> <br> <a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/passivechecks.html" target="_blank">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/passivechecks.html</a><br> <br> and the nsca_wrapper script is useful for such stuff. See:<br> <br> <a href="http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Passive-Checks/NSCA-Wrapper/details" target="_blank">http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Passive-Checks/NSCA-Wrapper/details</a><o:p></o:p></p> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> </blockquote> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>That makes a lot of sense. Don't know why I didn't think of that. Thank you very much!!<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal>Jaden Bentley<br> <a href="mailto:jaden.bentley@gmail.com">jaden.bentley@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>