Hosts.cfg question, service configuration question, ldapv3

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah at stanford.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:34 AM
> To: Joe Rhett
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:30 AM -0800 Joe Rhett
> <jrhett at isite.net> wrote:
> 
> >> 1) In the hosts.cfg file, it allows you to specify a check command
to
> >> execute.  I am currently using check-host-alive for this option.
> >> However,  I see no way to configure how *often* you want this
command
> to
> >> be executed.  Thus, it looks like it is more reasonable to
implement a
> >> ping service  instead of using this command if you want the host to
be
> >> checked regularly.
> >
> > Change the check interval.
> 
> My point is that there is *no* check interval parameter in the hosts
> config
> section.  Follow ups from others lead me to believe there is something
> else
> wrong here, however, since Nagios is supposed to behave in a "smart"
> manner.

You are correct, there isn't. Host checks are only executed when a
service on that host fails, up to the maximum specified retries. The
logic is that if a service on the host responds OK then the host itself
must be OK since you can never have a service respond OK on a down host.
See the Host Check portion of
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/checkscheduling.html.


--
Marc


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