In about a month I'll be getting an official request to have freshness checking turned on, with all the commands being something like:
echo "Stale check!";exit 2 So, unfortunately ensuring that the master never ever accidentally runs a check is important, even beyond the current issue of hosts without routes. On 10/23/12 7:34 PM, booleanena...@gmail.com wrote: > You can always set the check command for the host to execute the check_dummy > plugin so that if it doesn't get the result and decides to run an active > check check_dummy will force it to be in an up state. > Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Lindsey <mike-nag...@5dninja.net> > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:00:36 > To: Nagios Users List<nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Reply-To: Nagios Users List <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Passive-only master still pinging > > I've got a passive-only master that is configured to never execute > checks. Yet it's still performing ping checks for some hosts at some > times. This is mostly just annoying, but when it decides to ping hosts > that it doesn't have a route to, pagers go off. > > I've got 30k services in this config, so debug isn't really an easy option. > > Seeing this on 3.3.1. Any ideas? > > # excerpt from nagios.cfg > accept_passive_host_checks=1 > cached_host_check_horizon=15 > check_for_orphaned_hosts=0 > check_host_freshness=0 > enable_predictive_host_dependency_checks=0 > execute_host_checks=0 > host_inter_check_delay_method=s > max_host_check_spread=30 > obsess_over_hosts=0 > passive_host_checks_are_soft=1 > translate_passive_host_checks=0 > use_aggressive_host_checking=0 > -- Mike Lindsey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ 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