[Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it?

2008-08-07 Thread Ian Masters
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

Re: [Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it?

2008-08-07 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/08 04:09 AM, Ian Masters wrote: 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

Re: [Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it?

2008-08-07 Thread Ian Masters
Thomas Thanks for your reply. You can use check_dummy for the service... In Nagios 3 with regularly scheduled hosts checks it should work. Well, at the moment I only have about 20 hosts being tested, and even though I have check_interval set to 1 in the host definition, looking at the

Re: [Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it?

2008-08-07 Thread Seth Simmons
Masters Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:40 PM To: Thomas Guyot-Sionnest Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it? Thomas Thanks for your reply. You can use check_dummy for the service... In Nagios 3 with regularly

Re: [Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it?

2008-08-07 Thread Ian Masters
Seth Thanks for your reply. It probably does serve a purpose, just not for what you are trying to accomplish. Though warnings are given about not having services associated, you should be fine with just host checks if that is what you want. OK ... As far as the checks go, I have 101

Re: [Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it?

2008-08-07 Thread Seth Simmons
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it? Seth Thanks for your reply. It probably does serve a purpose, just not for what you are trying to accomplish. Though warnings are given about not having services associated, you should

Re: [Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it?

2008-08-07 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/08 09:40 PM, Ian Masters wrote: Thomas Thanks for your reply. You can use check_dummy for the service... In Nagios 3 with regularly scheduled hosts checks it should work. Well, at the moment I only have about 20 hosts being tested,

Re: [Nagios-users] Can I monitor a host without defining any services for it?

2008-08-07 Thread Ian Masters
Thomas Thanks for the reply. You can use check_dummy for the service... In Nagios 3 with regularly scheduled hosts checks it should work. Well, at the moment I only have about 20 hosts being tested, and even though I have check_interval set to 1 in the host definition, looking at the