Host vs Service reachability
Jason Frisvold
frisvolj at lafayette.edu
Mon May 18 19:25:44 CEST 2009
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Jon Angliss wrote:
> You're actually "inviting a world of hurt" doing it the other way
> around (service ping over host check). Host checks will help surpress
> service notifications, as well as help manage network reachability if
> you use parents (see [1]). Take for example, a host you have FTP,
> HTTP, and your ping check on. If you the host goes down, the ping
> service will show down, but FTP, and HTTP tests will also show
> unreachable, or timeout, causing 3 notifications. If the host check
> was to be used, you'd get a notification the host was down, rather
> than 3 to report host issues. You can, of course, work around this
> with service dependencies, but that complicates your configuration.
Excellent. This is pretty much what I gathered from various sources,
but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks!
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Jason Frisvold
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frisvolj at lafayette.edu
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