<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hari Sekhon wrote: <blockquote cite="mid452FBD44.1070602@googlemail.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> Indeed, that would be ok too, since then you can disable the host check and rely entirely on service checks so you get all the service checks. Almost as good. Of course it won't say host down, but it will say ping failed so you can tell from that. Another down side is that it will pollute your web interface with loads of trivial services, whereas it nice at the moment when all you see is the intended service. It would kind of spoil the web interface in my opinion. I think I will just wait for this to be done at the developer side, so that it is part of the normal configuration options. </blockquote> You may also find that it will blow out your service check execution times if you use a ping (service) check of, say, 5 packets @ 1 second apart. It doesnt sound like much but if you have a large number of hosts it *might* cause you problems. </body> </html>