Everything works! But I want more!

[Mark D. Nagel]

Marc Powell wrote:

>
>This is almost completely inaccurate information. While membership in a
>hostgroup is a requirement, it really has nothing to do with whether
>hosts are actually checked or not. Hosts are never checked until a
>service on the host fails. No service definition == no possibility of a
>host check so the host is always PENDING. If the initial check of a
>service on the host returns OK, the host is assumed to be OK as well. If
>it fails then the host itself is checked via its specified
>check_command. This is documented in several locations. 
>
>  
>

Apologies -- should have been more clear -- it should be actually 
monitored for some service, as you've already said.  We pretty much do 
this purely on a hostgroup basis, hence the apparent confusion.

Regards,
Mark

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Mark D. Nagel, CCIE #3177 <mnagel at willingminds.com>
Principal Consultant, Willing Minds LLC
tel: 714-630-4772, fax: 714-630-4773, web: http://www.willingminds.com/



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