Run Nagios without service checks ?

[Ian Davidson]

If you define a service like:

define service{
service_description     check-ping
check_command           check_ping
use                     generic-service
contact_groups          nobody
host_name               *
}


This covers pinging ALL of your hosts defined in the hosts.cfg file, so
you don't need to edit both files when adding a host.

Ian



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of J.M.Roth
> Sent: 28 July 2003 13:54
> To: Jordi Nelissen
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Run Nagios without service checks ?
> 
> 
> I'd say this applies to you
> 
> http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=39&expand=false&
> showdesc=true
> 
> Greets
> -jm
> 
> 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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