Hosts with no services

[listuser at neo.pittstate.edu]

That makes sense.  Then again I think I've heard to argued both ways on
this list before.  "don't check the host unless a service has problems"
and "don't check for services unless the host is up (if host checks are
enabled)".  I think both have their merits.  I added ping checks to all my
hosts and everything is kosher again.  Thanks

Justin

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Kevin L. Papendick wrote:

> 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



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