Hosts with no services?

[Valentine, Ray]

I set up a service for ping and give it a "*" for the host, this way everyone gets pinged but all I have to do is a host definition.
-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Powell [mailto:mpowell at ena.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:31 AM
To: John Senior; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Hosts with no services?


http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=39&expand=false&showdesc=t
rue

We do the same thing you have done.

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Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Senior [mailto:js at irishbroadband.ie]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:19 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> Hi there folks,
> 
> I have a lot of hosts that I just want to ping and see if they
> are alive - These are devices like switches, routers etc. that
> I just want to know are 'alive.'  What is the best way to
> achieve this?   At the moment I create a host and give it a
> single service which is a ping, but this is rather redundant -
> what does everyone else do?  I have 100s of devices that are like
> this, for the most part I don't even want alerts sent - just a visual
> indication on the status page that there is a problem with these
> hosts.
> 
> I'd like to do this with Nagios if possible, if not, does anyone have
> any suggestions for something more appropriate?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> John.
> 
> --
> John Senior <js at irishbroadband.ie>
> 
> 
> 
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