<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=841591815-26092002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The way that Nagios works is that it check services first. If the service associated with a host is checking "OK" then Nagios "assumes" that the host is OK therefore there is no need to check the host itself.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=841591815-26092002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=841591815-26092002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>hth,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=841591815-26092002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>dean</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Aaron Conaway [mailto:Aaron.Conaway@HOSystems.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:30 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Nagios User List (E-mail)<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] Host Assumed to Be Up<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=414582514-26092002><FONT face=Arial size=2>Newbie here.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=414582514-26092002><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=414582514-26092002><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just installed Nagios yesterday and am doing nothing but ping monitoring on 5 routers. All the host status information fields say "Host assumed to be up". What does that mean? I can't find it in the FAQ. Can anyone point me in the right direction?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=414582514-26092002><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=414582514-26092002><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any help.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>-------------------------------------</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aaron Conaway</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Network Engineer III</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Verisign, Inc.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.verisign.com/" target=_blank>http://www.verisign.com</A></FONT> </P> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>