Advice on host notifications

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se]
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:34 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Advice on host notifications
> 
> Marc Powell wrote:
> >>>I have a situation here where, for the moment, I am unable to
> >>>do host checks on several hosts which are located at an
> >>>outsourced facility.  I have no access to ping, trace, udp,
> >>>etc.  The only thing I can really do is to check_http (which
> >>>I can do successfully).  We're working on some firewall rule
> >>>changes to allow for NSClient and NRPE, but they may take a little
> >>>while.
> >>>
> >>>What I want to do is continue to monitor the services I can
> >>>(limited, I know), but bypass the host issues.  What would be
> >>>the most appropriate approach here?
> >>
> >>Make the host check use the check_http plugin instead of check_ping.
> >
> >
> > Or, if you don't like the redundancy, you can always just not
specify a
> > host check command at all.
> >
> 
> No. The check_command is not optional for host objects.

Umm. Sorry to inform you but not only is it demonstrably possible, it's
documented. I've been running w/o host check_commands for several years
now. 

--
Marc



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