Hosts.cfg question, service configuration question, ldapv3

Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah at stanford.edu
Wed Nov 19 19:57:26 CET 2003



--On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:46 AM -0600 Marc Powell 
<mpowell at ena.com> wrote:

>> 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.

The problem was that I didn't include resource.cfg which defined $USER1$ 
which is used by all the default check commands, now fixed. ;)  However, 
the statement in resource.cfg ($USER1$=/opt/nagios/libexec) throws an error.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
ITSS/TSS/Infrastructure Operations
Stanford University
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