# Send the passive service check back to Nagios
        logger.debug("Constructing the Nagios result string")
        nag_message = config.get('nagios','message')
        nag_status = 0
        logger.info("Passive check result sent to Nagios")

    except Exception, e:
        nag_status = 2
        nag_message = "%s" % (e)

    # Nagios passive status update
    nag_localhost_name = config.get('nagios','localhost_name')
    nag_remote_service_name = config.get('nagios','remote_service_name')
    nag_servers = config.get('nagios','servers')
    # Structure: $nagios_machine_name;$check_name;<status_int>;message
    nagios_result = """%s;%s;%s;%s in %s""" % (nag_localhost_name,nag_remote_service_name,nag_status,nag_message,total_human_time)

    for host in nag_servers.split(','):
        result = os.system("/bin/echo '%s' | /usr/sbin/send_nsca -c /etc/nagios/send_nsca.cfg -H %s -d ';'" %(nagios_result,host))