What's the best way to simulate (not schedule) downtime in nagios? I want to "pretend" a service is down for a certain amount of time to see what alerts nagios sends, etc.
I've come up w/ two bad ways to do this: % Edit the config file to change the test to "check_dummy". I want to run these "fire drills" via cron, and editing a file and restarting nagios seems a little ugly. % Submit a passive check saying the service is down, and reschedule the next check 4 hours later, so the service is 'down' for 4 hours. This can be done using the nagios named pipe, so it's easy to cron. Problem: doing things this way suppresses the alerts (when you don't test a service, it doesn't send an alert). Thoughts? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
