Re: [Nagios-db-devel] abstraction and mysql support added to ui

[Matthew K. <mk...@ma...>]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 18:08, Ben wrote:
> On further research, it turns out that this is becuase nagios explicitly 
> does not do regular host checks when you set the host checking mode to 
> smart. So now I'm torn: while I like seeing that nagios has checked the 
> hosts explicitly, this is not how nagios works by default. It seems that 
> the web interface should reflect what nagios thinks... that is, if it 
> beileves the host is up, regardless of if it's been checked, we should 
> display it as being up.
> 
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Ben wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Ben wrote:
> > 
> > > > The issue I see with how it currently works is that if you clear out the
> > > > db and wipe the nagios retention.dat, when you go to start nagios up
> > > > from this 'fresh' state the module doesn't insert all the host/services
> > > > on startup. So instead of seeing '800 pending checks' after refreshing
> > > > the mat view you see 5 hosts up/20 service ok/0 pending.
> > > 
> > > I suppose that is more correct, and doing this will also address the issue 
> > > about serviceDetails.php not showing pending services.
> > 
> > Ok, so I made some changes to get this to work, and I'm now noticing that 
> > it seems nagios isn't doing host checks on some of my servers. Have you 
> > noticed that?
> > 

Makes sense to me. I think this is what the current cgi's do (?) I
recall the hosts being marked as UP with '(Host assumed to be up)' in
the status field after some service checks had returned okay.

- Matt