check-host-alive vs check_ping

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Mon Jun 16 18:22:10 CEST 2003


Is there any need to define ping services?  It seems the check-host-alive
command is sufficient for this particular purpose.  Does Nagios execute the
host's check_command and then only run service checks if that succeeds?

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Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
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