Active check that stays CRITICAL until resetted

[Stiuzz]

Hi all,
could someone help me to configure an active check that remains in critical state until resetted (For example using "submit passive check result for this service", or creating a script that submit an external check).

An example of what I need is about uptime, I configured an active check that control uptime (check_uptime.pl) every 5 minutes and go in critical state if uptime is below 60 minutes, but when uptime reach 60 minutes the check go in ok state, I would like to configure this check to stay in critical state until manually resetted.

Do you think that is possible?

Regards
Stiuzz

[sreinhardt]

You would need to save information in a temporary file of some sort and validate the last modified time or something of that nature. Can it be done? Yes absolutely. Is the logic built into nagios? Nope, it would have to be logic handled in the plugin.

[Stiuzz]

Thankyou Spencer,
I agree with you, just wondering if there was another solution as I don't have much time to spend re/writing script

Regards
Stiuzz

[tmcdonald]

Shouldn't be incredibly hard to write actually. We'd be happy to take a look if you can come up with something close to what you need.

[wfournier]

You could write a script that submits a check result *only* on critical. Disable active checks, enable passive. Then it will stay critical until you submit an OK yourself.

[slansing]

Let us know if you'd like input while writing it.