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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Nagios 2 allows for scheduled host checks…however this
is discouraged for reasons I am still not clear on. Currently, we do not have
host checks scheduled regularly, but instead have a separate “</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ping</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>”
service that pings each host every 5 minutes to see if it is up. My question
is does it make sense for us to enable and optimize host checks and get rid of
the ping service or is there a really good reason to never enable regular host
checks?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks in advance for any help/advice.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kirk Frankovich</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Systems Administrator</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fort Dearborn Company</span></font></b></strong></p>
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