Not reporting on hosts with no services

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Nagios will only check the status of the host if the service check failed.
You don't have a service being checked, therefore the host will never be
checked.

If need be, set up a check_ping service.  This might sound redundant, but
that's the way it is.

Having said that, you might want to set up a common test for most of your
hosts.  Surely you login remotely once in a while, so you could test for
that.  If the answer is, "But these hosts don't provide any network
services, none, nada, zero, zilch," you might want to ask what value-add
they're providing.  ;)

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Schultz [mailto:don_schultz at panvera.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:03 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Not reporting on hosts with no services
> 
> 
> Yes, but if there's no services defined, doesn't the check_host_alive
> command definition at least give the nagios process the state of the
> host whether it is up or down?
> 
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> Don Schultz          | Panvera Corporation
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Van Zee, Timothy [mailto:T-VANZEE at govst.edu] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:49 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Not reporting on hosts with no services
> > 
> > 
> > You must have a service for each host.
> > 
> > 
> > Tim Van Zee
> > ITS Network Specialist
> > Governors State University
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don Schultz [mailto:don_schultz at panvera.com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:29 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Not reporting on hosts with no services
> > 
> > 
> > I started with a fresh install of nagios and have everything set up
> > right. It will check all services and assume host states. But 
> > the hosts
> > that don't have services associated with them are always stuck on
> > pending and they never seem to get checked. Anyone have an 
> idea what's
> > up?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Don Schultz          | Panvera Corporation
> > Unix Administrator   |  501 Charmany Drive
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