Host alive checking - why do I need a service?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of prosolutions at gmx.net
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 5:47 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Host alive checking - why do I need a service?
> 
> 
> 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?

Nagios is primarily a service monitor. Hosts are never* checked unless a
service on the host fails so you must have at least one service defined
for a host. Host and service check logic is also significantly
different.

--
Marc

*Nagios 2.x introduces scheduled host checks but their use is
discouraged.




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