check-host-alive and ping service check

[Greg Pangrazio]

You could also assign that check to a user that is not you, ie hide
them from yourself.


Greg Pangrazio
pangrazi at gmail.com




On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Khanh Truong <k11h12anh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of the time I use the Services view, and the problem with disabling the
> PING is that I have some hosts i.e.  switches that doesn't have any other
> services besides PING so getting rid of it would mean it would stop showing
> up under the Services view.
> I guess there is no way to customize views with Nagios is there? Anyone have
> any other ideas? I think I'll just keep both of them enabled for now so that
> I get my detailed view and hopefully down the road there it will be possible
> to create customized Nagios views.
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:05 PM, AJay <ajay at wxsec.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think you just get things complicated. These two checks are both default
>> definition. In my case, I just disabled the PING service.
>>
>>
>>
>> AJay - nagios beginner
>>
>> ------------------ Original ------------------
>> From:  "Khanh Truong"<k11h12anh at gmail.com>;
>> Date:  Wed, Nov 4, 2009 07:55 AM
>> To:  "nagios-users"<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>;
>> Subject:  [Nagios-users] check-host-alive and ping service check
>>
>> Hi,
>> I noticed that the check-host-alive and the PING service are the same
>> checks. This unecessarily creates double checks and duplicate rrd data if
>> you have both of them on. But the dashboard views are better when you have
>> both of them so my question is... how can I consolidate these two checks so
>> that either the PING uses the check-host-alive data or the check-host-alive
>> uses the PING's data and checks?
>> Ken
>
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