Host State for machines that don't allow ping

[Hari Sekhon]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
> Write a host-check that checks the status of all services on the host. If
> any service is up, the host is up.
In that case, I would just use the service check as the host check as well.

> Or, write a NEB-module to make this happen automagically whenever a 
> host is
> determined to be up and use a dummy check (that doesn't even have to 
> exist)
> for host check.

NEB seems a little OTT, I don't know anything about NEB and I'd rather 
avoid doing something heavy for something which should be small and simple.



I take it that most of you out there who run Nagios have ping enabled on 
_all_ of your hosts?


I can't be the first person to run into this, surely?

-h

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