Hosts w/o services

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Israel Brewster
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:01 PM
> 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.

Nagios is a service monitoring application and everything is developed
with that in mind. Every host is expected to have at least one service
associated with it. Being able to effectively monitor hosts without
services is new in Nagios-3 and is considered an 'optional' and not a
core feature. The effects you're seeing are the result of that
expectation. For example, clicking on the hostname link from hostgroup
overview takes you to a list of services on that host. It would be nice
if it did something different in your case but it's not there and you
should understand that your use case is the exception, not the norm. I
have heard nothing about that behavior changing in the future.

--
Marc

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