Hari Sekhon wrote: > 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? >
Write a host-check that checks the status of all services on the host. If any service is up, the host is up. Or, write a NEB-module to make this happen automagically whenever a host is determined to be up and use a dummy check (that doesn't even have to exist) for host check. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
