host check command theory of operation question

[Cook, Garry]

Your assumption is correct.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/networkreachability.html

Garry W. Cook, CCNA
Network Infrastructure Manager
MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
303.308.6228 (Office) - 303.881.5157 (Mobile) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Lancaster [mailto:jason at skynetweb.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:39 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] host check command theory of 
> operation question
> 
> 
> Hey everyone,
> I was playing around with Nagios today and disabled all of my 
> host check_commands in my configuration file. Once I did 
> that, the web interface had all "hosts" up except a few who 
> are always grey and pending. The grey and pending ones 
> appeared to be ones that had one or more services down.
> 
> I remember reading in the manual that if you disable 
> host-check-commands it will assume each host is up. This does 
> not appear how it operates because there were hosts that 
> appeared pending when a service was down.
> 
> I'm trying figure out when exactly Nagios performs the 
> host-check-command operation to see if a host is up. I'd hope 
> for efficiency it will only perform a host-check-command when 
> necessary, so my assumption leads me to believe that a host 
> check_command is performed when one or more services fails. 
> Can anyone confirm this or correct me if I am wrong?
> 
> Thanks!
> Jason Lancaster
> Intranet Administrator, Affinity Internet
> 
> 
> 
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