Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it?

[Seth Simmons]

So...if you click on a specific host, you see a 70 second difference
between last check time and next scheduled active check?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Masters [mailto:ian at acces.co.jp] 
Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 10:44 PM
To: Seth Simmons
Cc: Thomas Guyot-Sionnest; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any
services for it?

Seth

Thanks for your reply.

> It probably does serve a purpose, just not for what you are trying to
> accomplish.
> Though warnings are given about not having services associated, you
> should be fine with just host checks if that is what you want.

OK ...

> As far as the checks go, I have 101 servers and over 1200 service
checks
> and have never noticed a time lag with any of them.
> Would be best to use check_ping with your check_command directive for
> your hosts.

The default check_command, check-host-alive is a ping check is it not? I
presume that is sufficient.

> "If you leave this argument blank, the host will not be actively
> checked."

As long as check_command is defined in one of the host definition
templates I'm using, I presume that will be OK.

I still don't quite know why my host checks are being scheduled every 70
seconds. In my host definition, I've set check_interval to 1... any
ideas?

Thanks

Ian


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