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Hi Guys,

is there a way to don't show passivce checks as disabled?
because our admins miss them often, because they're disabled.
would be nice if there is a solution to display in "X Unhandled Problems" but still have the passive check Icon.


Hope you guys can help me.


thanks in advance for your help
kind regards
V3xX

I think we will need a bit more detail on this question, if your admins are missing updates to services because you have disabled passive checks on them, why not just re-enable them? If passive check results are disabled you will never see an update to that object unless it was from some sort of event handler posting data, or a freshness check being ran.

Similarly nagios would not know there is an issue if it never receives check results saying there is one. This is where I am a bit unclear, could you go a bit more into detail on what you are looking for or currently seeing that you want to change?

hi,

of course some more details:
i have passive checks (passive checks enabled, active checks disabled).
in Tactical Overview this checks are shown as disabled now i search an option or something like this to show this check not in "X Disabled" but in "X Unhandled Problems".
because some of our admins don't give a f*ck on the "X Disabled", they just have a look on the "X Unhandled Problems".

is there an option like this?
is the question now clear? (I hope so)


Thanks in advance for your help

These are different options:

"Unhandled Problems" are services "Not In Scheduled Downtime & Has Not Been Acknowledged & Active Checks Enabled".
"Disabled" are services with "Active Checks Disabled"

I don't believe you can change that. In Nagios XI, you can see how many services in a certain state are "active" or "passive", so I believe this is more intuitive.

ok, as there is no option for this, i got it by editing the tac.c file

Hi everyone,


I have the same request and I found, thanks to V3xX, that editing the tac.c file is the solution.
So I have 2 questions (maybe especially for V3xX ?) :

- Could you give me hint to find the exact line(s) where I can change what it needs to be changed ? (of course, I searched, and found especially one line that might be the one but I don't want to make a mistake...)
- Also, after that, I have to recompile Nagios right ? Or is there a way to only recompile this tac.c file ?

If Nagios need to be recompiled, should I just backup my conf files, recompile as if it's the first time and replace the new conf files with mines ? Or is there a more clever way to do it ?


Thanks a lot in advance for your help,
Nice regards,

Recompiling and reinstalling Nagios (but NOT the nagios config files) is easy enough. Just do the ./configure, make, make install commands again and you should be all set.

Make a backup first, but if you're just recompiling source, then your config files should not be touched by the install process.

Ok, so I'll try that.
Thanks a lot for your fast response.

Jeremy

moloko, or V3xX,

Can you let me know what exactly you changed in tac.c to achieve what you had wanted?

Thanks,

Tamas

@CSimpiFoN,

What version of Nagios Core are you running? Also what OS?