Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Distributed Resource

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Beattie
On 8/7/2012 8:33 AM, Andreas M. Iwanowski wrote: I.e. if the primary gateway goes down and the standby takes over, I would still like to be notified about host troubles behind the VPN. Only if both were to be down nagios should stop sending messages. Would setting parent/child relationships,

[Nagios-users] strange behavior disabling checks

2012-08-08 Thread Marco Borsani
Hi all Sometime happen that when I set active_checks_enabled 0 in a service and reload the configuration, Nagios did not recognize the instruction. The server still executes the check. It is very strange, because I use several Nagios servers since 2003 and it is the first time for me

Re: [Nagios-users] strange behavior disabling checks

2012-08-08 Thread Assaf Flatto
Where did you set the directive ? in a template or in the individual service ? Can you share the relevant configuration data ? On 08/08/12 14:16, Marco Borsani wrote: Hi all Sometime happen that when I set active_checks_enabled 0 in a service and reload the configuration, Nagios did

Re: [Nagios-users] strange behavior disabling checks

2012-08-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 08/08/2012 03:16 PM, Marco Borsani wrote: Hi all Sometime happen that when I set active_checks_enabled 0 in a service and reload the configuration, Nagios did not recognize the instruction. The server still executes the check. It happens if you have enabled state retention

[Nagios-users] R: strange behavior disabling checks

2012-08-08 Thread Marco Borsani
I set in the individual service. define service { host_name HOST service_description Admin_Modem_PROCS is_volatile0 check_commandcheck_modem_procs

[Nagios-users] R: strange behavior disabling checks

2012-08-08 Thread Marco Borsani
Hi 1) state retention data enabled = YES (we need for maintain past data) 2) disable active checks from the webinterface = NO ( I delete many external command in the web interface, I left only acknowledge and scheduled downtime) I change directly the parameters in the cfg files and

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Distributed Resource

2012-08-08 Thread Andreas M. Iwanowski
Thank you Chris! This sounds great So as I understand, if I define a parent-child relationship between the VPN services (or core gateways) on the parent side and the remote gateway on the other side, the remote gateway will be checked (and we notified) as long as one core gateway is online?