2009/3/16 Deborah Martin <deborah.mar...@kognitio.com>: > So on changing the "ssh check" from a > service to a host definition (to prevent PENDING on the hosts), the > pre-flight warnings now complain there are no services associated with the > hosts. On big systems here (100 nodes+) this makes the pre-flight output > really unreadable and not really accurate as surely we should be able to > choose whether something is a host check or service check but not have to > define BOTH!
> Ultimately, I just want to filter SSH check problems to appear under "Host > problems" rather than under "Service problems" so users can easily spot > other service problem issues and not have to trawl through 100's of lines of > output in the web interface. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure I understand. If there are "other service problems" this implies you are monitoring services other than ssh on that host. In that case it is perfectly valid to have ssh as your host check and various other checks as your service checks. The pre-flight "nagios -v" test then won't complain at all. Please don't forget that the primary purpose of Nagios is to alert you when a service important to you has a problem. If a service isn't important to you you probably shouldn't be monitoring it with Nagios. If ssh is the only service important to you on a server and it's also the only way to check whether it is up, it's perfectly valid to have it both as a service and host check. If it really bothers you, you could probably contrive an snmp query of the port on the switch most local to the server to see if it's 'up' or not. Cheers, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ 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