Hosts with no services
Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
Fri Nov 22 23:29:25 CET 2002
Good point. Maybe I'll turn on the ICMP service checks again, for my
metrics.
jc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin L. Papendick [mailto:papendick at nexserver.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 4:07 PM
> To: listuser at neo.pittstate.edu
> Cc: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts with no services
>
>
> 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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