Re: [Nagios-devel] Passive checks

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Passive checks

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Is there anything that would allow for a passive check to notify you if it
hadn't been updated in a specified period? For instance, if the passive check
was not updated in 15 minutes, notify that there could be a problem or WARNING?

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Quoting Dougal Scott :

>
> A few points on passive checks:
> * The scheduler should ignore passive checks in all its
> calculations as it doesn't have to schedule a check of them. If
> you have, like we do, a _lot_ more passive checks than active ones then
> it skews all the calculations badly.
>
> * Passive only checks still get added to the scheduler so it still
> runs the check_command. Whereas netsaint wouldn't run passive
> checks because you put them in a non-occuring timezone, nagios
> removed that obfuscation and let you specify that a check was
> passive. At least according to the documentation that is. Did the
> source get updated to reflect this?
>
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