Hosts with no services

[Kevin L. Papendick]

It's not wrong, but it also doesn't do what you probably think it does. 
 If you define a host without any services Nagios doesn't provide you 
with a status of the host.  i.e. The hosts status is not checked unless 
a service returns a non-OK state.  Thus if you want to know if a host is 
up or down, you need to define some service to check.  I've done the 
same as you with the ping service.

See these two FAQ entries that say basically the same thing:
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=15
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=16

-klp


listuser at neo.pittstate.edu wrote:

>Is it wrong to create a host without creating services for it?  Originally
>when I defined my network HW and some oddball servers I also created a
>ping service.  I didn't really think about it at the time but that was
>redundant as the host check was also a ping.  However it did allow me to
>see all hosts even if they were their own service under Service Detail.
>that also prevented the numerous warnings Nagios logs about hosts with 
>no services when I restart it.  Is it incorrect to do it that way?
>
>Justin
>  
>
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