[op5-users] Merlin testing and troubleshooting

[Sean Millichamp]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 17:23 -0400, Russell Jennings wrote:

> An important point that you may have missed (as I once did): in a noc/ 
> poller setup, while both need to have the same configs, it's more like  
> passive check submital. that is, merlin just needs there to be a valid  
> entry (on the noc) for the host/service. the actual check execution  
> should not happen. for those remote hosts that the poller will submit  
> data for, i have, in the noc, set them up as passive checks, since  
> nagios itself cannot actively check them.
> 
> Hope that is in some way helpful to you...

Thanks Russell, that is indeed helpful and it is probably how we will
proceed.  It does look like there is some plumbing in Merlin to handle
disabling active checks on the NOC automatically for connected pollers,
but that it isn't functional and/or complete yet.  I've also done some
poking at the code during the last day and I have a couple of minor
patches (coming shortly) that don't fix it, but hopefully may take it
closer to fixed.

Sean