Host Checking

[Greg Vickers]

Hi John,

Hosts are NOT scheduled for regular checking as Nagios is a 
service-oriented system. They are only checked when a service returns a 
non-OK state. Your statement that hosts without services defined are 
alway pending is correct as that host will not have a service to return 
a non-OK state...

You may not want to check the host, so checks_enabled exists. The 
directive check_command should be self explanatory... 
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#host will help a 
lot.

Nagios 2.0 does support scheduled host checks but they are not recommended.

HTH,
Greg

John McGowan wrote:

> Okay, I can't seem to figure this one out...
>
> Nagios 1.2
>
> If you define a Host without any services, what is the schedule that 
> the host is checked on?  I don't see a host check interval value 
> anywhere?  Hosts without services never seem to get past "pending", 
> which makes sense, because i don't see anything in the schedule to 
> check the hosts... So all that being said, what is the point of the 
> "checks_enabled and the check_command" options in the host 
> configurations...
>
> /John
>
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