> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Kimura > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:15 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Ping service > > Is it necessary to create PING service, or does the host definition > already take care of that? I currently have a PING service defined > for all my hosts, but the host definitions all include the check-host- > alive > command. I'm wondering if the PING service is redundant.
If you have at least one other service defined for the host then it's redundant. As a general rule, every host needs to have at least one service definition to be checked. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null