Host Checks

[Marc Powell]

A host check is only performed when a service check for that host fails.
I.e. if you're monitoring the HTTP port on a host and that check fails,
Nagios will perform a host check to determine if the host itself has
failed or if it's just the HTTP service.

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Duckworth [mailto:sduckworth at aug.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 1:20 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Host Checks
> 
> List,
> 
> I am a little unclear about the host checking interval.  I have read
in
> the
> documentation that host checks are not  scheduled to execute on a
regular
> basis.  I have also read that hosts checks are "run on demand, as
nagios
> sees a need" and this is the part that confuses me.   Can someone
explain
> how nagios determines when a host needs to be checked?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ____________________________________________________________________
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