Giles Coochey wrote: > > I thought host checks were only there to prevent you from receiving multiple > service notifications when a host went down. > Even if that's the way it was designed, you can still use it to determine if a host is up or down :) Also, if you HAD to have a service for each host, Nagios wouldn't even start up. > > Are you sure? Is it not just alerting you it's down when nagios goes to work > out where the network outage is (assuming you have parenting set). > > The gateways are the 2 main parents - there's nothing above them, but they do have servers below them. The people that manage the SC_Gateway are re-routing to a new floor in the data-center, so at least once a day the router goes down for a few seconds when they apply new routing rules - Nagios tells me whenever this happens. > Which I thought was because it didn't have a service attached to it, Nagios > won't check a host if it doesn't have a service (at least that's how I've > evaluated it's behaviour). > No, hosts AND services have an active_checks_enabled parameter - so you can disable active checks on a host, but still check the services, and vice versa. > > Actually I thought Fermín's thoughts were more closer to the the way that my > Nagios functions and it seems to be the way I expect it to function. > > If I want a serviceless host then I just attach it to the ping service (or > similar). Though generally, any service-less hosts we would have we'd > probably turn off and not put in nagios at all :-) > That's basically what the check-active-host is - it's a ping command that saves you having to have a Ping service (because I wouldn't exactly class ping-ability as a service.) > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > > !DSPAM:37,4550a9d440411440015495! > > >
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