Nagios lying about host status?

[Christoph Maser]

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Please read
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/checkscheduling.html#host_checks

An easy solution for me is run check_ssh as _service check_ on each
host. So as soon as your host is responding to ssh its marked up again.
The host-check logic will be changed in future releases.

Chris

Ahmon Dancy schrieb:
> Followup:
> 
> When the service recovered (a few minutes ago), I got the service
> recovery notification, followed by the host recovery notification.
> Something is definitely wrong.
> 
> 
> 
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I'm using 2.6 as packaged by Fedora Core 5.
>>>
>>> I have a host that went through the following sequence of events:
>>>
>>> service problem occured (which nagios noticed)
>>> host was rebooted (which nagios noticed)
>>> service problem persisted after reboot.
>>>
>>> However, nagios did not notice that the host came back up.  
>>>
>>> In the host state information, it claims that it has been checking the
>>> host regularly.. but it is never updating the host status.  I ran the
>>> host checking command by hand (check_ping ...) and it reports proper
>>> information.
>>>
> 
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