Active vs. passive checks; host won't check

[Steve Yates]

Marc Powell <> wrote on Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:28 PM:

> You must define at
> least one service for every host if you want it to be checked. This
> requirement is likely to change with nagios-3.

	Thanks to all the respondees.  I'd vote for that change as it
seems counterintuitive to me to not check the status of something that
Nagios knows is important (parent or grandparent to all other hosts),
and also the average router doesn't really run a "service" IMHO, though
ping would have to work to check the status anyway, I think.  Sounds
like I need to set up a host profile for routers that has at least the
ping service.

	As for active/passive, what you all describe makes sense. It's
just not documented that I could find.  The "Service Check Scheduling"
doc page for instance doesn't contain the word "active," nor does
"Determining Status and Reachability of Network Hosts."

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self-help section?"  She said if she told me, it would defeat the
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