[Nagios-users] Can passive results cause active check rescheduling?

2012-01-24 Thread Craig Stewart
Good day! Here is a question. Can the processing of a passive service check schedule a pending active service check? Here's a simple example from a distributed monitoring setup. Lets say we have a service called check_alive that simply pings a host. It's defined on the probe and the central

Re: [Nagios-users] Can passive results cause active check rescheduling?

2012-01-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 24 January 2012 15:07, Craig Stewart craig.stew...@corp.xplornet.com wrote: Good day! Here is a question.  Can the processing of a passive service check schedule a pending active service check? Here's a simple example from a distributed monitoring setup. Lets say we have a service

Re: [Nagios-users] Can passive results cause active check rescheduling?

2012-01-24 Thread Craig Stewart
Jim, I do use freshness checking to get the desired behaviour. I don't want the active check to run unless they need to. If it (the central server) is doing active service checks, one of the main reasons to run a distributed setup, distribution of resource requirements, gets tossed.