I have recently patched out nagios code to increase the freshness
timeout after a restart - I will be adding it to the Altinity blog
within the next few days.
I'll post again when I have had time to do it.
Duncs
On 19 Jun 2007, at 16:49, Michelle Craft wrote:
>
> I use passive checks for several purposes, but I'd like to start using
> them as a daily heartbeat. The problem is that my nagios server
> restarts
> at least once a day and the freshness timeout is always reset to the
> restart time instead of the last time a passive check was sent. It
> looks
> like the behaviour I would like was present in older versions, but
> changed:
>
> base/checks.c:
>
> /* CHANGED 02/25/06 SG - passive checks also become stale, so
> remove dependence on active check logic */
> if(temp_service->has_been_checked==FALSE ||
> program_start>temp_service->last_check)
>
> expiration_time=(time_t)(program_start+freshness_threshold);
>
>
> The freshness example given in the docs (freshness.html) is a daily
> heartbeat. It appears that the above change makes a heartbeat
> impossible
> if the freshness_threshold is ever longer than a reboot cycle.
>
> I think the only way to fix this is to back-out the change
> (unlikely) or
> add yet another config file option - something like
> freshness_restart -
> and include it in the checks.c expiration_time logic.
>
> Unless I'm missing something. Has anyone else run into this
> problem or
> found a different work around?
>
>
>
> --
> Michelle
>
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