Re: [Nagios-users] Defining passive checks

2012-08-16 Thread mohamed ben romdhane
Hello Jonathan,

I think that you must put 

define service {
         service_description            Oracle
         host_name                      oddjob.resnet.bris.ac.uk
         use                            resnet-service
        max_check_attempts        1
    check_freshness 1
    freshness_threshold 86400

        check_command   check_dummy!1 no news since 24h
}
= The check_dummy command will run if no passive check has been received 
within 24 hours (86400seconds) and display warnig alert (1)  and info status 
no news since 24h

Regards, 

Mohamed



 De : Jonathan Gazeley jonathan.gaze...@bristol.ac.uk
À : nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 
Envoyé le : Mercredi 15 août 2012 15h07
Objet : [Nagios-users] Defining passive checks
 
I'm a long-time user of Nagios with active checks. Today I started using 
passive checks with NSCA and I'm having a problem.

The documentation states A service must be defined in Nagios before you 
can submit passive check results for it.

I defined a config block like this, to define a service for the Oracle 
service that I want to monitor passively - omitting the check_command 
directive.

define service {
         service_description            Oracle
         host_name                      oddjob.resnet.bris.ac.uk
         use                            resnet-service
}



But running nagios -v gives this output:

Error: Service description, host name, or check command is NULL
Error: Could not register service (config file 
'/etc/nagios/nagios_service.cfg', starting on line 8618)
    Error processing object config files!


So what's the approved way of defining a service without specifying a 
command for active checks?

Thanks,
Jonathan

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Re: [Nagios-users] Defining passive checks

2012-08-16 Thread Jonathan Gazeley
Hi Mohamed,

Thanks for your response - this worked.

Have a nice day,
Jonathan


On 16/08/12 08:08, mohamed ben romdhane wrote:
 Hello Jonathan,

 I think that you must put
 define service {
  service_descriptionOracle
  host_name  oddjob.resnet.bris.ac.uk
  useresnet-service
 max_check_attempts1
 check_freshness 1
  freshness_threshold 86400
 check_command   check_dummy!1 no news since 24h
 }
 = The check_dummy command will run if no passive check has been
 received within 24 hours (86400seconds) and display warnig alert (1)
 and info status no news since 24h

 Regards,
 Mohamed
 
 *De :* Jonathan Gazeley jonathan.gaze...@bristol.ac.uk
 *À :* nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
 *Envoyé le :* Mercredi 15 août 2012 15h07
 *Objet :* [Nagios-users] Defining passive checks

 I'm a long-time user of Nagios with active checks. Today I started using
 passive checks with NSCA and I'm having a problem.

 The documentation states A service must be defined in Nagios before you
 can submit passive check results for it.

 I defined a config block like this, to define a service for the Oracle
 service that I want to monitor passively - omitting the check_command
 directive.

 define service {
  service_descriptionOracle
  host_name  oddjob.resnet.bris.ac.uk
  useresnet-service
 }



 But running nagios -v gives this output:

 Error: Service description, host name, or check command is NULL
 Error: Could not register service (config file
 '/etc/nagios/nagios_service.cfg', starting on line 8618)
  Error processing object config files!


 So what's the approved way of defining a service without specifying a
 command for active checks?

 Thanks,
 Jonathan

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[Nagios-users] Defining passive checks

2012-08-15 Thread Jonathan Gazeley
I'm a long-time user of Nagios with active checks. Today I started using 
passive checks with NSCA and I'm having a problem.

The documentation states A service must be defined in Nagios before you 
can submit passive check results for it.

I defined a config block like this, to define a service for the Oracle 
service that I want to monitor passively - omitting the check_command 
directive.

define service {
 service_descriptionOracle
 host_name  oddjob.resnet.bris.ac.uk
 useresnet-service
}



But running nagios -v gives this output:

Error: Service description, host name, or check command is NULL
Error: Could not register service (config file 
'/etc/nagios/nagios_service.cfg', starting on line 8618)
Error processing object config files!


So what's the approved way of defining a service without specifying a 
command for active checks?

Thanks,
Jonathan

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Re: [Nagios-users] Defining passive checks

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Elsen
 I'm a long-time user of Nagios with active checks. Today I started using
 passive checks with NSCA and I'm having a problem.

 The documentation states A service must be defined in Nagios before you
 can submit passive check results for it.

 I defined a config block like this, to define a service for the Oracle
 service that I want to monitor passively - omitting the check_command
 directive.

 define service {
  service_descriptionOracle
  host_name  oddjob.resnet.bris.ac.uk
  useresnet-service
 }



 But running nagios -v gives this output:

 Error: Service description, host name, or check command is NULL
 Error: Could not register service (config file
 '/etc/nagios/nagios_service.cfg', starting on line 8618)
 Error processing object config files!


 So what's the approved way of defining a service without specifying a
 command for active checks?



 The approved way is that you can't because it remains a service
definition, however the command
can be dummy , although it must be defined.
The command definition however is obliviated by  using :

   active_checks_enabled  0
   passive_checks_enabled   1

Sometimes for check_command check-host-alive is being used, this avoids
long outstaniding stale data
for the specific passive service definition.

M.
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