Good day! Here is a question. Can the processing of a passive service check schedule a pending active service check?
Here's a simple example from a distributed monitoring setup. Lets say we have a service called check_alive that simply pings a host. It's defined on the probe and the central server. On the probe, it's scheduled to check every 60 seconds, and submit the results to the central server. On the central server, it's scheduled to check every 120 seconds. Is there a way to cause the following behaviour to occur? - Probe checks and submits the results to central. It reschedules the check for 60 seconds from now. - Central receives and processes the results (assume an okay state here) and reschedules it's active check that was going to run within short time frame to 120 seconds from now, without running the active check. - 60 seconds later the probe checks and submits (still in an okay state) it's check to the central server. - The central server receives and processes the check result, and reschedules (postpones) it's active service check for 120 seconds from now, without actually running it. - Repeat until a non-okay result comes in. This way if the probe goes silent, the central server will pick up monitoring nearly seamlessly. I know I can get the results I want using the check freshness option. What is happening now, if I enable active service checks on the central server is that the passive result comes in, is processed and the active service check is run at exactly the scheduled time. There is no postponing the central server's check time. There are a couple of problems. 1) My central server also does active service checking for some devices that are not associated with a probe. I can build these to have a separate template, but I'm already getting into template complexity. I don't want to have to have two templates, one for local and one for remote monitoring of each device type. 2) I have an individual that doesn't like to see red on the Nagios interface. They are sufficiently far up the food chain that all I can really do is say "Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full sir" and hope they forget about it. All the 10000 plus services show up in the Nagios interface as disabled and have a red background. Please assume any valid arguments on my part have been made. None of my reading has suggested that this behaviour is possible, but I thought I'd put it out there and ask. Cheers! Craig -- Craig Stewart Systems Integration Analyst craig.stew...@corp.xplornet.com Xplornet - Broadband, Everywhere This e-mail (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential information protected by duties of confidentiality or privilege. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please immediately notify us by return e-mail or by telephone, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. Thank you. ________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message est destiné uniquement à la personne prévue et peut contenir des renseignements confidentiels et/ou privilégiés au titre dune obligation de confidentialité. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire visé, veuillez nous en informer sans délai par courriel ou téléphone et détruire ce message ainsi que toute pièce jointe, sans en garder de copie. Merci. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ 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
