Advice on host notifications

[Cook, Garry]

[snip]
>>>>> 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,
Can you point me in the direction of this documentation? I didn't know
that this feature was available, and am very interested to see how it
works.
Thanks.

Garry W. Cook, CCNA
Network Infrastructure Manager
MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile)


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