> Hi everyone, > > at the moment I'm playing around with passive checks. > > maybe I'm to stupid, but will I be on the right way? > > I've set up a new Server group called "passive-servers' with only one test > server called "muninbsd" > > this server will be monitored like a active server. I've only changed the > parameter "active_checks_enabled" to 0 and the parameter > "passive_checks_enabled" to 1. "check_freshness" is set to 1 and > "check_freshness" is 4800. > > some services like check_load, check_disk, check_mysql will be done by > check_nrpe, started by the nagios main server. > > Is this the right way to works with passive checks? >
- What is the goal of using passive checks ? A service being defined as passive , means that the result of the status check,for that particular service, is not initiated by NAGIOS but delivered to NAGIOS by an external program, such as NSCA (for instance). NRPE determined checks are initiated by NAGIOS (....). M. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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
