Host Status Pending

[Andreas Ericsson]

Marco Ramos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yep, I Know, but is not exactly what's hapenning to me :)
> 
> I see something like "This host has not yet been checked, so status
> information is not available." in the Host State Information. Although
> the service checks run every 5 minutes and return an Ok status to every
> check, my host status keeps "Pending" and the Host State Information is
> "This host has not yet been checked, so status information is not
> available." (and not "Host Assumed to be Up.")
> 

Ah. Do you have hostdependencies configured? Do you have a check command 
for the host itself? You can always add a service you know won't work 
and then sit back and wait while the host check executes.

> TIA,
> mramos
> 
> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 16:47, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>Marco Ramos wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've my nagios 1.2 box running on a Debian 3.0 for quite a while and
>>>monitoring more than 200 hosts and 1500 services.
>>>
>>>I'm experiencing a little problem though. I've recently added a new host
>>>with a few services. The weird thing is that the service checks were all
>>>performed and the service status was changed to Ok for everyone of them,
>>>but the host status remains pending. I've checked my configuration and
>>>searched the FAQ and mailing list for similiar problems but have found
>>>nothing about it. 
>>>
>>>Does anyone experienced this kind of problem?
>>>
>>
>>That's how nagios works. Host checks are done in a serialized manner, so 
>>Nagios doesn't waste time with them unless a service on the host goes 
>>sour. That's why you would see "Pending (host assumed to be up)" or 
>>something similar. in the GUI.
>>
>>
>>>TIA,
>>>mramos 
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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