Nagios passive checks, reset service to OK state after notification

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We have a passive service setup (external server reports issues via passive checks to nagios) and nagios sends out notifications when these services receive a non-ok state. However, we don't want to have to go in and manually reset the state of that service back to OK, is there a way to tell nagios to re-set the service back once it's received the non-ok state? I tried setting "is-volitle" to 1 but that didn't seem to work. Thanks!

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Simply build a script on the nagios server that submits a passive check with a status of OK. Define a command in nagios that will call the script with the host and service name. Setup a notification to be linked with the host and service that will trigger that notification command in addition to any other notifications.

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Nagios (re-)send notification for service in OK state

I don't think this is possible within any Nagios Object. Nagios goes to great lengths to track state change and not much more.

What you can do is make a custom service that triggers a notification every day.

All in all though it sounds pretty useless. If you haven't got a notification for a changing state, it's safe to assume that your service is in its initial state.

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