[Nagios-users] Passive freshness checks go wrong

2012-06-11 Thread MAD
Hi, I have a Nagios 3.2.3 box on an Ubuntu server 11.04 with about 930 hosts and 28500 services. For each host, I have 5 passive checks mapped on SNMP Traps. In order to secure those checks, I set up a freshness checks using check_dummy and a freshness threshold of 15min, as I normally receive

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive freshness checks -> active checks

2010-08-13 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hey All, >> I'll check out the stats and turn on debugging next to see if there >> is >> anything there. In the mean time, what version of nagios are you >> running? > > Nagios Core 3.2.1 This seems to be the problem right here. I upgraded to nagios 3.2.1 from 3.2.0 and nagios now honors my

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive freshness checks -> active checks

2010-08-09 Thread Jim Avery
On 9 August 2010 16:38, Charlie Reddington wrote: > I have increased the time offset to be a minute or two. But all our systems > should be close as we use NTP to keep them in sync, and nagios currently > does active checks on this one to make sure things are happy. That's the ideal thing to do,

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive freshness checks -> active checks

2010-08-09 Thread Charlie Reddington
I can't see any problem with the config below. If you have dozens of checks set up this way and they are all set up in crontab to run at */15 then you will get a storm of checks at each 15 minute intervals. I normally make sure I stagger the checks in cron so that they are reasonably evenly space

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive freshness checks -> active checks

2010-08-09 Thread Jim Avery
On 6 August 2010 17:02, Charlie Reddington wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm having a bit of a problem with my nagios setup. I'm trying to move > toward passive checks, with failover being a active check. For now, my > failover check command is just a one liner that returns critical with > a message. > > I

[Nagios-users] Passive Freshness checks

2010-08-06 Thread Gilberto Nunes
Hi guys... I set up a Nagios 3 here.. I'm using Debian Lenny for that. I put some host to get passive checks too. On remote host I'm using NC_NET package that provide WMI communication to a Windows 2003 host. The NC_NET tool is installed in the same machine. I set up the NC_NET to send data at eac

[Nagios-users] Passive Freshness checks

2010-08-06 Thread Gilberto Nunes
Hi guys... I set up a Nagios 3 here.. I'm using Debian Lenny for that. I set up some host to get passive checks too. On remote host I'm using NC_NET package that provide WMI communication to a Windows 2003 host. The NC_NET tool is install on same machine. I setting NC_NET to send data at each one

[Nagios-users] Passive Freshness checks

2010-08-06 Thread Gilberto Nunes
Hi guys... I setting up a Nagios 3 here.. I'm using Debian Lenny for that. I setting up some host to get passive checks too. On remote host I'm using NC_NET package that provide WMI communication to a Windows 2003 host. The NC_NET tool is install on same machine. I setting NC_NET to send data at e

[Nagios-users] Passive freshness checks -> active checks

2010-08-06 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hi All, I'm having a bit of a problem with my nagios setup. I'm trying to move toward passive checks, with failover being a active check. For now, my failover check command is just a one liner that returns critical with a message. I'm it's looking like the active check is being run, even wh