Run Nagios without service checks ?

[Marc Powell]

Hosts are never checked unless a service on that host fails. You must have at least one service defined for each host, even if it just a check_ping service.


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Marc

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jordi Nelissen <jordi at nelissen.name>
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Mon Jul 28 08:15:45 2003
Subject: [Nagios-users] Run Nagios without service checks ?

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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