> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Smith > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:15 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Hosts in PENDING State > > Hello, > > I have several hosts configured with active checks enabled and the > check_command set to check-host-alive which is defined in the command > file. The state on these hosts always stays in pending unless I manually > schedule a check. I noticed that in the sample "localhost" configuration > there is a PING service that simply pings the host. Do I need to > associate some sort of a service with each host before they will be > checked? Is there something that I have missed in the documentation that
This should be a FAQ and actually I believe it's in there. Nagios is first and foremost a service monitoring application. Hosts are never checked unless a service on that host fails* therefore every host must have at least one service defined for it. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/checkscheduling.html#host_checks I'd be surprised if you didn't find lots of discussion about this by searching for 'pending' in the archives. -- Marc * There are exceptions when walking up a parent tree to determine network outages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ 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
