regularly schedule host checks?

[Max]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Frater, Greg J<GJFRATER at bechtel.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm wondering if there is any consensus from Nagios users regarding
> scheduled host checks.  In general is it better to have Nagios schedule host
> checks or is it better to use the old logic i.e. only run the host check if
> a service check fails.  How do you turn off the scheduled host checks in
> version 3?  I've been messing with some of the host check settings but
> there's no obvious 'disable scheduled host checks'.

recommended method with Nagios 3 is to run regularly scheduled host
checks and then use host check caching as this will keep Nagios from
re-running the host check every time a service fails :):

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/cachedchecks.html

If you really do not want to use regularly scheduled host checks, set

active_checks_enabled 0

in your host definition, then a host check will only be run on-demand
when a service check fails.

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