On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Ford, Andy wrote: > > <advice tag='unsolicited'> > There must be some reason for each server or device to be on the > network, it must provide some service, even if it's just a lowly(?) > sshd. > Do yourself and your organization a favor and monitor that reason! > </advice>
To some extent, yes, but not necessarily a service we can monitor. There are quite a few devices on the network that it is important to us to know should the device fail, but aren't offering any separately monitorable "service", per se. For example, printers. We need to know if one dies, so we can fix it before it becomes a problem (not to mention that fixing the boss's printer before he even knows it has a problem makes you look good ;-) ), but other than the simple ping host check, they don't offer any "services" we can monitor. Even some more essential devices such as switches can fall into this category, as they are just routing traffic, not offering any "services". I could, of course, go crazy and use check_snmp or something to monitor each port on said switch as a service, but that is way overkill for our needs- we just need to know that the switch is there and functioning, i.e. host check. Not to mention the rather large category of client machines, which we need to know are running so they can be backed up, and, of course, used for whatever the user needs. Kind of difficult to monitor the ability to run office, or an e-mail client :-). We still want to monitor the host, though, so that hopefully if/when a client machine should die we can fix it before the user (who may well come in before us in the morning) is impacted. We could, of course, monitor something like ssh on those machines, but why? All we (and the user) care about is that the machine is functioning. So yeah, while this may not be the way nagios is designed to work, and may never be (which I can live with if so), I really don't see this as being all that unusual a situation, as some responses seem to imply. ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 ----------------------------------------------- > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >> Of Israel Brewster >> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:01 PM >> To: Nagios Users Mailinglist >> Subject: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services >> >> Running nagios 3.0, I have set up a number (most) of my hosts >> without >> services, since all I am interested in monitoring is the hosts >> themselves. However, this is causing a number of little annoyances, >> such as the hosts not showing up when I type their name into the >> nagios sidebar search, throwing numerous warnings if I do a verify >> from the command line, giving me a blank page when I click the >> hostname link from the hostgroup overview page, etc. Is there >> any way >> around these issues other than adding a check_dummy service check to >> each host? Thanks. > > > > > Wachovia Securities, LLC's outgoing and incoming e-mails are > electronically > archived and subject to review and/or disclosure to someone other > than the recipient. > > A.G. Edwards, a division of Wachovia Securities, LLC > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ 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
