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winner. works like a champ!

re: freshness check. actually ... I did do something along those lines, although I'm not sure I did it right. snippet: check_freshness 1 however, it did not *alert* that there was a problem. if I did not set this up right, please post an example. Looking at the link you gave, btw ... thanks, ... thi...

Hola,

We utilize passive service checks via nsca. I'm looking for information on how to alert if passive check output is not received.

i.e. it's been 1 hr and I haven't received any information if the service check was successful or if it failed.

Any help is appreciated.

Ok, I've made a little headway, but that only makes things stranger. btw, headway means that I added another config/defination file w/ the hostname in it. Here's some strangeness: we have two nagios servers. let's say the IP's 192.168.1.5 & 192.168.1.6 from a box w/ IP 192.168.10.1 - telnet 192....

Hi Scott, No ... I don't think that's it. Here's some output: we have a helper script: /usr/local/nagios_checks/nagios_common contents of nagios_common: #!/bin/bash me=`hostname` monitors=(10.64.1.6) let "sleeptime=$RANDOM % 30" function send_health (){ for monitor in ${monitors[@]} do sle...

Hello, Something odd is going on,and I'm hoping to get a little help. I'm trying to run some passive checks on some linux boxes and getting errors that don't make sense. error: PASSIVE SERVICE CHECK: $host;xmpp-bosh;2;TCP CRITICAL - Invalid hostname, address or socket: -p things tried: ping $host wo...