Why distinguish hosts from services?

[Stéphane Urbanovski]

Holger Weiss a écrit :

> PS: On nagios-users@, there was a feature request for some option to
>     derive the state of some host from the state of some service, which
>     I have no strong opinion on, but which provoked me to finally ask
>     this question here :-)  See:
> 
> 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.user/56068

I also think it's a good idea.
I always ask me why I need to define a test for a host (usualy ping) while I already defined a ping service on all hosts.

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Stéphane Urbanovski

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