Run Nagios without service checks ?

[Chris Stankaitis]

No,

You'll require at least 1 service per host for Nagios to function 
happily, define a PING service for each host, and everything should be 
fine but you will still need to use the services.cfg

Chris

Jordi Nelissen wrote:
> I plan to use Nagios to provide a very simple view to my users of the 
> availability of routers within our VPN network. For this I'm only 
> interested in PINGing the different remote site routers in our VPN.
> 
> Can I use Nagios without the extra burden of the services.cfg file and 
> limit my config to the hosts.cfg ? What are the side effects of not having 
> a services.cfg file ?
> 
> When restarting the Nagios process I receive several warnings and error 
> messages complaining about the lack of the services.cfg file. Despite 
> these messages, Nagios seems to run fine.
> 
> Thanks, Jordi
> 
> 
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