Hosts w/o services

[Paul Weaver]

You can use check_ping -- I assume the boxes are pingable, and you want
to check they are pingable, even if they do nothing else that can be
monitored. 

If you don't want to check they work via ping, why are you even
modelling them?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Israel Brewster
> Sent: 16 April 2008 19:01
> To: Nagios Users Mailinglist
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services
> 
> 
> Running nagios 3.0, I have set up a number (most) of my hosts 
> without  
> services, since all I am interested in monitoring is the hosts  
> themselves. However, this is causing a number of little annoyances,  
> such as the hosts not showing up when I type their name into the  
> nagios sidebar search, throwing numerous warnings if I do a verify  
> from the command line, giving me a blank page when I click the  
> hostname link from the hostgroup overview page, etc. Is there 
> any way  
> around these issues other than adding a check_dummy service check to  
> each host? Thanks.
> 
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> Israel Brewster
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