Host checks instead of service checks

[Deborah Martin]

Hi Folks, 

Currently, the main nagios box (running old version of SuSE) and Nagios
2.0b4 is running just with service checks, one of which is an ssh check (we
don't allow ping) 

So in the web interface, I see all hosts as up. 

However, I've built a new box (which hopefully will replace the above) with
SLES 10SP1 and Nagios 3.0.6. I've put the same config files (services.cfg
and hosts.cfg) 
on the this new system. But now the hosts all show as "Pending". So I then
moved the ssh check from a service check to a host check and can see that
the more hosts I move the  less hosts are pending. That's good so far...

But, when I run the pre-flight check (/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v
nagios.cfg), I now get warnings to say some hosts don't have any service
checks associated with it! 
This is true as some nodes will only have ssh checks against them whilst
others will have other checks against them. I'd rather it didn't warn me as
I have hundreds
of hosts appear in the pre-flight check warnings and it now looks incredibly
untidy to see all this. 

How can I get rid of these warnings ? 

I'm probably missing something here so any help would be appreciated. I'm
wondering for example, if I should force the initial state to be UP for
hosts rather than 
moving the ssh service check to a host check. But then what would happen if
the service check found a node was down - would it reflect that in the "host
problems" ? 

regards,
deborah 




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