Re: [Nagios-devel] passive host - distributed monitoring

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Re: [Nagios-devel] passive host - distributed monitoring

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Marco Supino wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing a problem with distributed monitoring, it seems that when a
> passive host check is received, it immedialtly goes into HARD state,
> without noticing the max_attempt directive, I tried fixing it in the
> source, and make it go into SOFT before attempt = max_attempts, but some
> other function is messing my check_attempt , anyone can assist
>
> Marco.
>

Nagios 2 doesn't support a max_attempts directive for hosts and all
passive host check results will immediately force the host into a HARD
state. This has changed a bit in Nagios 3 - hosts do have a
max_attempts directive, but passive results still put the host into a
HARD state.

Hope that helps.


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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