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Is "Active Check" required somewhere?
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:34 am
by mcdonamw
For a host to be monitored does it have to have either Active Check or Passive Check somewhere, be it at the host, host group, service, template, etc.?
I'm looking at a host's configuration for a CPU check, and I cannot find either one of the check options enabled anywhere (it's set to skip everywhere I look) so I'm wondering how it is being monitored at all.
Re: Is "Active Check" required somewhere?
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 12:31 pm
by snapier3
These options are most likely being set in the template for the check.
Check to see what the settings are in the template being inherited.
--SN
Re: Is "Active Check" required somewhere?
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:02 pm
by jmichaelson
How do you have the host configured to be checked in general? Are you using NCPA or some other method?
Re: Is "Active Check" required somewhere?
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2023 10:32 am
by cnorell
The check does indeed need to be configured somewhere; nothing happens by magic.
I'd also put my money on inheritance.
Re: Is "Active Check" required somewhere?
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2023 3:10 am
by kg2857
Typically a host check is defined to ping the host to see if it is reachable. You can use a different check but something standardized is somewhat normal and ping/icmp is the usual way.
You need an am I alive check to tell the system to continue checks. The main cfg can fail all other checks or not and alert or not.
I wonder what the real question is?