Passive check listed as Disabled

[Hildebart]

I have been using Nagios for a while, but only with active checks.
Today I started testing passive checks. I have installed nsca and everything is working as expected.

However, the passive check is listed as Disabled in the Nagios webui. Is there a way to fix this?

Webui

Version: Nagios Core 4.0.8.
OS: Linux.

[tgriep]

You will need to add the following to the service check in question to enable passive checks.

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passive_checks_enabled                   1

[Hildebart]

I already have "passive_checks_enabled 1".

Here's the service definition:

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define service {
  service_description           Passive Check
  check_command                 check_null
  passive_checks_enabled        1
  active_checks_enabled         0
  host_name                     radon
  use                           lgq-service-nosms
}

lgq-service-nosms:

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define service {
  name                          lgq-service-nosms
  register                      0
  max_check_attempts            3
  check_interval                5
  retry_interval                1
  first_notification_delay      0
  notification_interval         240
  notification_options          w,u,c,r
  active_checks_enabled         1
  passive_checks_enabled        1
  notifications_enabled         1
  check_freshness               0
  check_period                  24x7
  notification_period           24x7
  contact_groups                adminsNOSMS
}

check_null

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define command {
                command_name                    check_null
                command_line                    /bin/true
}

[jolson]

Let's see some excerpts from your nagios configuration:

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grep passive /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

[Hildebart]

No settings was commented out so I removed the comments from the output.

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# grep passive /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg|grep -v "^#"
log_passive_checks=0
accept_passive_service_checks=1
accept_passive_host_checks=1
translate_passive_host_checks=0
passive_host_checks_are_soft=0

[tgriep]

Can you go to that service in the GUI and enable passive checks?
Does it stay enabled when you do that?

[Hildebart]

The service already had passive checks enabled in the GUI:

Service in GUI

I tried "Stop accepting passive checks for this service" and then "Start accepting passive checks for this service" again.
Didn't help.

I also tried "Enable active checks for this service" and then "Disable active checks of this service".
No change. The service is still marked as Disabled.

[tgriep]

The Tactical screen is showing that the Active Check is disabled, not the passive check, so it seems to be correct if the active check is disabled for that service.

[Hildebart]

But this service will never have an active check. Just a passive one.

As long as the definition is

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  ..
  passive_checks_enabled        1
  active_checks_enabled         0
  ..

the service should not be listed as if the active check is disabled.

I thought active check disabled meant "there is an active check defined for this service, but at the moment it's disabled for some reason"?

[tgriep]

The Tactical Overview is suppose to show if an active check is disabled, it is there to get a quick overview of whats enabled, disabled, up, down, etc...
Here is the description of Active Checks.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... hecks.html