Hi, I am curios what people do when monitoring a host that does not respond to pings. I have a host which is not under my control, it does not respond to pings, but I am monitoring one service. The service is up, so the host is up. I am not receiving notifications for this host and it appears to be fine, but in the web interface, nagios has the host column as red but the service column as green.
This is somewhat of a contradiction because if the service is ok, then implicitly the host is up. Should the host column not be green as well? I am considering changing the host definition's check command to a dummy check instead of the usual ping check, but this seems like not quite the right thing to do because the host may well be down then and the dummy check will always return ok and nagios will think that host is up. I have also considered making the host check just the same check that the service is, which should work for this one host, but what about if I have to do the same for other hosts, this doesn't scale, I can't template it etc... These are the only 2 options I can think of, either never know if it's up or not, or use the service check, but this doesn't scale and has to be done on an individual host basis for any host that doesn't respond to pings. Anybody got any other ideas? Thanks -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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
