Hosts with no services

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

That's how I started out, too.  I eventually decided it was redundant.  For
one thing, I'm monitoring legitimate services now.  The one exception to
this is a router that I have no control over which doesn't even have the
telnet port open.

You should ask yourself this:  If the hosts are connected to a TCP/IP
network, what value are they giving your users if all you can do is ping
them?  At the very least, check to see if ssh is up (assuming you're using
ssh to login to the host).  Even better, install NRPE and the plugins and
start collecting o/s-related metrics.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: listuser at neo.pittstate.edu [mailto:listuser at neo.pittstate.edu]
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:47 PM
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Hosts with no services
> 
> 
> Is it wrong to create a host without creating services for 
> it?  Originally
> when I defined my network HW and some oddball servers I also created a
> ping service.  I didn't really think about it at the time but that was
> redundant as the host check was also a ping.  However it did 
> allow me to
> see all hosts even if they were their own service under 
> Service Detail.
> that also prevented the numerous warnings Nagios logs about 
> hosts with 
> no services when I restart it.  Is it incorrect to do it that way?
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> 
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