Hosts in PENDING State

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andy Smith
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:15 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Hosts in PENDING State
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have several hosts configured with active checks enabled and the
> check_command set to check-host-alive which is defined in the command
> file. The state on these hosts always stays in pending unless I
manually
> schedule a check. I noticed that in the sample "localhost"
configuration
> there is a PING service that simply pings the host. Do I need to
> associate some sort of a service with each host before they will be
> checked? Is there something that I have missed in the documentation
that

This should be a FAQ and actually I believe it's in there. Nagios is
first and foremost a service monitoring application. Hosts are never
checked unless a service on that host fails* therefore every host must
have at least one service defined for it.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/checkscheduling.html#host_checks

I'd be surprised if you didn't find lots of discussion about this by
searching for 'pending' in the archives.

--
Marc

* There are exceptions when walking up a parent tree to determine
network outages.

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