Host w/o services are no longer doing check-alive-tests

[Ralf Mellis]

Marc Powell wrote:
> You may have found a bug but it's not the bug you're hoping for. Nagios
> is primarily a service monitor. Host checks should not be executed at
> all unless a service check for that host fails. If a host has no
> services defined then it should never be checked. The parenting aspect
> _might_ throw in a weird loophole in that logic but it certainly should
> not be counted on.
> 
> For your router example (I monitor about 1700 of them), define a
> host-check of just 1 ping and a service check of 10 pings or whatever
> you feel comfortable with.
> 
> Did you ever have services defined for those hosts that were previously
> showing as up? Do you have retain_state_information enabled? That
> combination might explain why they had an OK status as opposed to
> PENDING.
> 

So, I have setup an additional ping service for all hosts...and 
absolutely all works fine.
Thanks a lot.


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