Hosts where frequently turned off

[Andreas Ericsson]

Chrigi Hartmann wrote:
> Hi Tedman
> 
>> The host
>>will not be checked again until a service fails.
> 
> And what Is when a host has no services? This can be by workstations
> where I want that they are alway up on my status map or 'host detail'.
> 

The logic behind Nagios implies services, since it's really rather 
useless to monitor a host you don't want to know anything about. If you 
want to create diagrams of your network there are other tools better 
suited for it.

> 
>> If you can
>>artificially make one of that host's services fail, then you will
>>initiate a hostcheck to reset to proper state (in this case
>>check_dummy).
> 
> And what is whit my second problem? when I define the command
> check_dummy and the host like in your example, then nagios would not
> start. i have the error: 
> Host check command 'check_dummy!0' specified
> for host 'wkst13.lan.webmeischter.ch' is not defined anywhere!
> 

Read the docs. You can't specify arguments for host-checks in Nagios 
1.x. It's available in 2.x though, so you might want to upgrade. In 2.0 
you also have the option to force host-checks even if no services have 
failed.

Sounds to me like an upgrade should take care of your problems.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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