On May 6, 2009, at 5:30 AM, Felipe Ferreira wrote: > Hello all, > What is the difference between checking a host is alive with a check > in > the host template (check_command check-host-alive), witch I have > defined > as a PING. > And creating a ping service applied to the host ?
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