Hi, I am working on setting up a distributed monitoring system with Nagios (actually Groundwork). I have 3 child servers and 1 parent server, using NSCA to send passive check results from the children to the parent server.
My question is about how Nagios (version 2.5) will behave when an on demand host check needs to be run. So for example: Host A is configured with check_host_alive ( a simple ping ) as its host check command on the parent server. It is also configured with Service A, say an SNMP check. Active host checks are not disabled on the parent server, but active service checks are. Host A, obviously, is also configured on the child server. When the child server sends a passive check result up to the parent saying that the SNMP check has failed, will the parent server then run the on-demand host check command to verify that Host A is still up? If not, how do I get that information up to the parent? Are passive host checks my only option? So I guess the question is this: In a distributed monitoring setup, will a parent server run an on-demand host check for a host that gets a report (via a passive service check sent from a child server) of a service being critical? Thanks, Tom -- ------------------------------------- Tom Ammon Network Engineer Business Card at http://tomsbox.net/bizcard_TomAmmon.jpg Center for High Performance Computing University of Utah http://www.chpc.utah.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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