Service checks when host is down

[Morris, Patrick]

> well, think about it, if you have service down alerts you may 
> think that the service is broken or crashed or switched off. 
> If you see both service and host alerts then you know which 
> services are broken and you can also immediately see that it 
> is due to the machine being down, so you don't waste time 
> trying to remotely connect to it. It's more informative.

There's nothing to stop you from having a service check, such as a ping
check, that tells you whether the host is up or not.

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