alerts + passive service check

[feralsboy]

Hola,

We utilize passive service checks via nsca. I'm looking for information on how to alert if passive check output is not received.

i.e. it's been 1 hr and I haven't received any information if the service check was successful or if it failed.

Any help is appreciated.

[tmcdonald]

That's called a Freshness Check and is pretty painless to set up.

[feralsboy]

re: freshness check.

actually ... I did do something along those lines, although I'm not sure I did it right.

snippet:
check_freshness 1

however, it did not *alert* that there was a problem.

if I did not set this up right, please post an example. Looking at the link you gave, btw ... thanks, ...

this: check_command no-backup-report ; this command is run only if the service results are "stale"

would seem to indicate that I need to create a cmd "no-backup-report" which would be '/bin/mail -s "your screwed" [email protected] < /dev/null'

Is that about right?

[tmcdonald]

That service was included as an example only and this is mentioned in the article.

Most people just set their check_command to check_dummy returning critical if they want to be alerted right away.

[feralsboy]

winner. works like a champ!

[tmcdonald]

winner. works like a champ!

That is what they call me












Except not really. Glad it's working for you, gonna lock this up now.