Host alive checking - why do I need a service?

[prosolutions at gmx.net]

If I have some hosts that I want to check with nagios to see if they are
alive, why do I have to also define a service for the host, since the
host stanza already provides for a ping check.  Is it not redundant to
have another ping check as a service?



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