Check settings clarification

[Jdawg2002]

Hello, I have 2 questions:

1) I'm a bit confused about the difference between 'skip' and 'null' in the the Service Management -->Check settings under Nagios CCM. For example, I know that active checks can be either 'on' or 'off'. However, what is the difference between 'skip' and 'null'?

2) Also, if you have active and passive checks of a service set to 'off', wouldn't this result in a permanent state of 'PENDING' ?

Thanks for your help.

[nscott]

1) Skip means there will be no explicit declaration in the config. This allows for the particular host or service to inherit definitions from templates. Null means that it will be explicitly declared as null, which is a Nagios config keyword which means it will stop that value from inheriting from a template.

2) I do believe so.

[lmiltchev]

Just want to add to nscott's response to question 2. It would result in "Pending" only if there hasn't been any checks performed yet. If there were at least one check performed, it would remain in the last state it was (before the active and passive checks were disabled).