Hello I was wondering about the necessity to define a service for hosts that I just want to ping. As far as I understand, the default Host Check Command, check-host-alive, is a ping check and looking at my scheduling queue, these checks are being done regularly but when I verify my config files Nagios always warns me about the hosts which have no services defined.
So I looked in the documentation and found this: http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=39 On that page Ethan Galstad says: You really need to define at least one server per host that you plan on monitoring. Although you can define a host and not assign any services to it, you will not get the results you are expecting. Nagios is primarily geared towards monitoring services - hosts are only checked when there are problems or recoveries with services, so things will go awry if you define a host without any services. The above FAQ was written in 2002. Is this still true? Since the host is already being checked by the Host Check Command, it seems redundant to specify a ping check as a service. Do all you Nagios admins define a ping service, if you only want to check if a host is up or down? Thanks Ian Masters ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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