Hello, I would like to use Nagios just to monitor the aliveness (i.e., UP/DOWN status) of a set of hosts. However, looking to the documentation and the sample that comes with the just installed software, I've seen that in order to do so two pieces of configuration are needed: a host declarartion (in the hosts.cfg file) using 'check-host-alive' command and a service declaration (in the services.cfg) file, expecifing a "PING" service using 'check_ping' as monitoring command (*).
(*) However, from miscommands.cfg, it seems that check-host-alive command implementation is actually based on check_ping. Just defining the host (without the corresponding "PING" service declaration) doesn't seems to work: the host remains in "PENDING" state forever (with status information "Not enough data to determine host status yet"). It seems that Nagios deduces a host is UP if the services running in it are UP (so "Host *assumed* to be up"), but doesn't perform explicit monitoring of the host "itself". Is that right? Why don't fully decouple host-monitoring from service monitoring? Declaring the "PING" service is not an actual problem to me, but I'd just like to clarify this is the Nagios "phylosophy" :) Thanks in advance! Best regards, -------------------- Fermín Galán Márquez CTTC - Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Av. del Canal Olímpic s/n, 08860 Castelldefels, Spain Room 1.02 Tel : +34 93 645 29 12 Fax : +34 93 645 29 01 Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
