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we have no way of really determining without a ton of nasty logic, that this host was not originally intended as active and should be made active again. Well... I thought of not letting the users turn on active checks on items defined as passive in the configuration file. I can imagine that it woul...

Yes, it seems to me that there's not much that I can do about it. The problem is that the active check (programmed to be otherwise activated in freshness checks) gives some kind of a "No data" result, which (in a way) puts the blame on the guy that runs the monitoring system. I can give th...

Hi *, I'm fighting with my users over the configuration of some services: a service defined as passive in the config file ( active_checks_enabled 0 ) can be turned into an active one from the user interface ( Enable active checks of this service ), which then leads (us) to strange ends. Not sure if ...

what could be done is to implement an event handler that uses the external command "DISABLE_HOST_SVC_CHECKS" Thanks, that's it. The bad point is that even with checks disabled, the web UI shows the result of the last check, and shows the same question-mark as for passively checked service...

I see (I think): does it really mean that the services on a host that is down (or having a parent that is down) are [*] checked [*] the results of those checks is shown on the web front-panel of nagios [*] and only the alerts are not sent out ? Is there a way to stop checking and show them as unreac...

They still will not be reported as OK, if in fact they are down. They are checked and shown as OK - and that's what puzzles me. It clearly is a bad design of that service-check, but I'd expect Nagios not to even attempt (correct or poorly designed) checks of services on a host that is down or unrea...

Not yet - what I need now is that they're not reported as OK/green in the Nagios front panel.

Thanks for the answer: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/4/en/dependencies.html speaks about service dependencies. The picture there is beyond my understanding - I miss some table or some verbal description that would tell that (e.g., following the first definition, and I think I read it...

Hi * it seems that I don't understand the meaning of service parents. I configured service_B to have service_A as parent. My expectation was that when service_A is critical, service_B should not be checked and should be reported as unreachable or unknown. This does not happen: service_B is still che...

Thanks for the hint - I'll try it.