[Nagiosplug-devel] inconsistance between nagios and documentation

Ethan Galstad nagios at nagios.org
Sun Sep 22 20:10:02 CEST 2002


Thanks for the reminder.  Should be in CVS now.

On 19 Sep 2002 at 9:45, Martin.Schmitz at naw.de wrote:

> hi,
> 
> as i stated earlier in this list, there is an inconsistance between nagios
> and the documentation and even between
> different parts of the documentation. unfortunately this has not been fixed
> in the latest beta.
> just compare the description of freshness_threshold in "xodtemplate.html",
> "distributed.html" and "freshness.html".
> the description in "xodtemplate.html" matches the behavior of nagios.
> i think this should be fixed.
> 
> martin
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >first, there is an inconsistant description of freshness checks in the
> >documentation.
> >the freshness_threshold must be given in seconds, but the freshness.html
> >says: if set to 5 and interval_length is set to 60 then it will be 5
> >minutes. this isn't true. see paragraph "How The Freshness Threshold
> Works"
> >the same wrong description is given on the page distributed.html paragraph
> >"Freshness Checking".
> >
> >second:
> >I'm providing some passive service checks to nagios without using nsca.
> the
> >check time is provided by the remote host. the check is executed every 5
> >minutes and freshness_threshold is set to 10 minutes. the problem is, that
> >the remote hosts time isn't synchronized with the nagios hosts time. if
> the
> >remote hosts time is more then 10 minutes after the nagios time, then the
> >service states will flap all the time, because each incoming passive
> >service check result is detected to be stale. this could be solved by
> >synchronizing the times with NTP, but which way should be used if NTP
> isn't
> >possible. How does NSCA handle this?
> >As a workaround i do not use the check time from the remote host, but
> >replace it with the local time when passing the result into the external
> >command file. any suggestions about a better solution?
> >
> >martin
> 
> 
> 
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Ethan Galstad,
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