Null host check_command (was: Advice on host notifications)
Marc Powell
marc at ena.com
Wed Sep 8 16:05:39 CEST 2004
----Original Message----
From: Robert Nelson [mailto:rnelson at windchannel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:59 AM
To: Marc Powell; Andreas Ericsson; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Null host check_command (was: Advice on host notifications)
> > > > Or, if you don't like the redundancy, you can always just not
> > > > specify a host check command at all.
> > > >
> > >
> > > No. The check_command is not optional for host objects.
> >
> > Umm. Sorry to inform you but not only is it demonstrably possible,
> > it's documented. I've been running w/o host check_commands for
> > several years now.
>
> Marc,
>
> So do you not get any host status changes when you don't define the
> check_command, or does the host go down when all services on it fail?
Nagios always assumes the host is up, no matter what.
--
Marc
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