checks instead of service checks
Thanks Richard. I'll give that a try.
regards,
deborah
-Original Message-
From: Richard Quintin [mailto:rich+nag...@quintinz.com]
Sent: 16 March 2009 15:26
To: Deborah Martin
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host checks
You could use check_dummy for the host check and just have it always
return OK.
Or perhaps the opposite you could add a check_dummy service check for
all hosts.
Which you choose will depend upon your personal preference and how you
want dependencies to be handled.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:06
Thanks Richard. I'll give that a try.
regards,
deborah
-Original Message-
From: Richard Quintin [mailto:rich+nag...@quintinz.com]
Sent: 16 March 2009 15:26
To: Deborah Martin
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host checks instead of service checks
You
Folks,
I should have also mentioned that the reason for doing this is to filter out
host problems separately to service problems.
If I leave ssh checks as a service and 44 nodes are switched off, I see 44
ssh critical alerts under Service Problems. I'd rather see 44 ssh critical
alerts under
2009/3/16 Deborah Martin deborah.mar...@kognitio.com:
Hi Folks,
Currently, the main nagios box (running old version of SuSE) and Nagios
2.0b4 is running just with service checks, one of which is an ssh check (we
don't allow ping)
So in the web interface, I see all hosts as up.
However,
To: 'Richard Quintin'
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host checks instead of service checks
Thanks Richard. I'll give that a try.
regards,
deborah
-Original Message-
From: Richard Quintin [mailto:rich+nag...@quintinz.com
mailto:rich+nag...@quintinz.com
2009/3/16 Deborah Martin deborah.mar...@kognitio.com:
So on changing the ssh checkĀ 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