That's exactly what I described. Altho the docs don't describe toggling active checks on/off, which is the requirement here. You can still do the same using the external commands process.
Taylor On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 22/08/08 03:45 PM, Taylor Dondich wrote: >> So a nice round-about way of doing it would be to disable active >> checks on the service initially. Then when your passive check script >> detects a problem, not only does it send nagios a passive check >> RESULT, but it also sends a command to enable active checks on that >> service. Then your active check script, when it determines the >> problem has resolved itself, could also send nagios itself a command >> to disable active checks on that service. Fun way to do it. >> >> Information on the commands you need, their description, and sample >> shell scripts which execute them, are at: >> >> http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php >> > > I would rather implement the "adaptive monitoring" part using > eventhandlers. I there's even a section in Nagios doc about adaptive > monitoring. > > Don't miss the list of external commands neither; they're available here: > http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/ > > Some of them are very useful for altering the monitoring logic. > > - -- > Thomas > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIr7kw6dZ+Kt5BchYRAhW0AJ4iIj/mYdtG1m9wYAHwcjyNRK5+pgCg+Yva > d3+4EueprfHxB84t7qXtovY= > =KAlq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Taylor Check out my Shortcut with O'Reilly Press: Network Monitoring with Nagios: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528195/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null