<!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"> Hi, After reading this thread I just couldn't passed without commenting it. We also have this problem, we are an NREN and so a kind of ISP. We connect clients through rented lines and we want to monitor the lines we rent. How we can do this is simple: just ping the host in the other end of the line. It happens that these hosts are property of the client and so we don't have access to them or neither we care about the services they could have on them... (also, it was to complex to monitor services in multivendor hosts that we don't even know!) So we configured nagios 3.0.1 as we did since the old netsaint era, just created a service "ping", as been mentioned here before. The only difference is we disabled periodic host checks by setting the host check interval to 0. We also have a complex scenario here since we had setup a custom host_alive script to test hosts more time in after-hours time to don't have many false alarms to our night team. We do this with the new $ISVALIDTIME. (Thank you Nagios 3!! ;)) A final note on our monitoring experience is to only monitor services that are really important to us. I don't want to get my attention away of really hard problems with things that are not important to resolve. And that could be on a faulty state for weeks. Of course it depends on the size of the infrastructure you are monitoring, but I'm talking in hundreds of hosts and many more services. Regards <div class="moz-signature"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <title>Emanuel Massano</title> Emanuel Massano FCCN Av. do Brasil, n.º 101 1700-066 Lisboa Tel: +351 21 844 0100 Fax: +351 21 847 2167 E-Mail: <a href="mailto:emanuel.massano@fccn.pt">emanuel.massano@fccn.pt </a><a href="http://www.fccn.pt/" title="http://www.fccn.pt">www.fccn.pt</a> Aviso de Confidencialidade Esta mensagem é exclusivamente destinada ao seu destinatário, podendo conter informação CONFIDENCIAL, cuja divulgação está expressamente vedada nos termos da lei. Caso tenha recepcionado indevidamente esta mensagem, solicitamos-lhe que nos comunique esse mesmo facto por esta via ou para o telefone +351 218440100 devendo apagar o seu conteúdo de imediato. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee. It may contain CONFIDENTIAL information protected by law. If this message has been received by error, please notify us via e-mail or by telephone +351 218440100 and delete it immediately </div> Israel Brewster wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:2DA115FA-4783-44CB-90A2-057C8CDBFAFB@frontierflying.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:32 AM, David Wallis wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have the same situation with some devices. I just configure a "ping" service for them, and then move on to more interesting problems. When there's such a simple solution, it sometimes doesn't pay to overthink the problem. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Yeah, I'm seeing that. Just didn't think it would be such a big issue :-D I was actually expecting either a simple solution, or a simple "it can't be done". Unfortunately, being the stubborn type, I tend to beat these things into the ground :-P :-D ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 ----------------------------------------------- </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-- David Wallis Information Technology Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory 630.252.7375 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone">http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>