The data below that makes up a service definition and commands definition below should serve as an example of what a passive check definition may look like:
define service{
host_name yourhost.com
service_description PassiveCheck
check_freshness 1
; active checks are NOT enabled
active_checks_enabled 0
; passive checks are enabled (this is how results are reported)
passive_checks_enabled 1
; 26 hour threshold, since backups may not always finish at the same time
freshness_threshold 93600
; this command is run only if the service results are “stale”
check_command no-backup-report
notification_interval 0
check_interval 60
retry_interval 1
max_check_attempts 1
# parallelize_check 1
# is_volatile 1
# obsess_over_service 0
}
define command{
command_name no-backup-report
command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_dummy 2 “CRITICAL: Results of backup job were not reported!”
}
