Monitoring host heartbeat

[test541]

Hello,
I'd like to deploy monitoring lack of events from specific host.
For example it is important to know that from the host there were no events since 1 hour (neither critical nor normal).
In my scenario on the host side there's some scripts running and they send alerts to Nagios. There's also heartbeat script.
It is like passive monitoring initiated on host side and variable in time.

Standard ICMP monitoring is not enough because it is network based and not related to host monitoring scripts (they should be running on the host all the time).
How to handle "no messages received" from specific host in Nagios?
Thank you.

[sreinhardt]

Probably the easiest way is via freshness checking on your particular check that needs this. Try taking a look at the documentation below and let us know if you have further questions.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/freshness.html

[test541]

It's exactly what I need
Great concept implemented into Nagios.
Thank you.