> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Tucker > Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:55 AM > To: Nagios Mailing List > Subject: [Nagios-users] Submitting active check results? > > Hi, > I'm missing something here. In the extinfo.cgi page, > all my active service checks on my central server have a link > to submit "passive" service checks, which actually allow me to > change the state of service checks and I assume the external > command for this is PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT, true? Why is
Yes. > there no corresponding active check command? Also, if I set the > service to active_checks_enabled=1 and passive_checks_enabled=0, > I don't have the ability to submit this result. So is an active > service check also always a passive? Active checks and passive checks are two different and independent ways of providing status information to nagios. An active check is one in which the host or service check_command is run by nagios itself. You can force an active check to happen by re-scheduling the next check of the service. A passive check is one in which the host or service state is determined by another program (submitting a passive result via the GUI, NSCA, a cron job or other external process). In this case, nagios isn't actively determining the state of the service itself but is simply taking the results of a PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT directive in the external command file at face value. Passive checks are most often utilized for a distributed monitoring configuration but can have other uses like SNMP trap handling, etc. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ 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