Hosts PENDING

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, frank wrote:

> I can't find the specific doc/FAQ that says so, but I know its been
> discussed here before:
>
> Every host needs a service. A host will not be checked if it doesn't have
> one. Even tho your host-check is probably a check_ping or check_icmp, add
> a _service_ to that host that does yet another check_ping or check_icmp. I
> doubt the extra bandwidth usage will kill your network. ;)

With Nagios v2 this does not seems to be true. Or I must be fortunate to
have multiple hosts with only a host check that have an accurate state
indicator. And some of the use other checks like check_http or check_smtp

Hugo.

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