On 26 October 2010 10:09, Andrea Imparato <imparato.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello to all ml, > > > I have a simple request for you. I have a passive service check > scheduled on my nagios server and a cron script on my clients (they are > all natted) that send me the informations. The question is: which is the > parameter for nagios that say "after some period send me an email if you > see nothing happens?". Sorry but I found the documentation a bit > chaotic :\
See: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/freshness.html So the important bits are ... Make sure it's a passive check: active_checks_enabled 0 passive_checks_enabled 1 Check whether a fresh check has been received recently: check_freshness 1 freshness_threshold 93600 Run this this if not fresh: check_command no-backup-report In this case, instead of a normal check command, you have a command defined which will always give you a non-ok warning: define command{ command_name no-backup-report command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_dummy 2 "CRITICAL: Results of backup job were not reported!" } Note the check_dummy plugin takes two arguments - the exit code you want it to return (0=ok, 1=warning, 2=critical, 3=unknown) and the check result text you want Nagios to display. I normally do something similar, but with pedantically correct text like so: define command{ command_name check_dummy-checkfail command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_dummy 3 "UNKNOWN: Nagios didn't receive a check result from the cron job on this server!" } Whether you choose to use warning, critical or unknown is up to you. hth, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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
