check-host-alive vs check_ping

[Patrick LeBoutillier]

It's the other way around. Nagios executes the host check_command
only if one of the service check fails. That's why in some case where you
have no services on a device, you must use a "ping service" to actually
get the device pinged on a regular basis.

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Patrick LeBoutillier
Laval, Quebec, Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: [Nagios-users] check-host-alive vs check_ping


>
> 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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