Hosts w/o services

[Israel Brewster]

On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Paul Weaver wrote:
> 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?

I AM checking them via ping- in the host check. It just doesn't make  
sense to be pinging both as a service check and as a host check, and  
since the ping is actually determining the host state, not the state  
of a service, it makes more sense to put the ping check as the host  
check, rather than a separate service.

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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service Inc.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
(907) 450-7250 x293
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [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.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> Israel Brewster
>> Computer Support Technician
>> Frontier Flying Service Inc.
>> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd
>> Fairbanks, AK 99709
>> (907) 450-7250 x293
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>
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