Hosts with no services?

Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
Thu Jun 26 18:24:03 CEST 2003


Okay, I'll buy that for a dollar.  If the *only* thing a given piece
of hardware can offer is ICMP, then that's what you've got to work with.

I was more perplexed by Trever's comment regarding the impact to network
bandwidth and CPUs.  'Needless' is completely subjective.  If I log in
to some box remotely and type 'ls', do something else, and type 'ls' again,
that's arguably needless, as I could simply scroll back (in most cases).

I still remember one analogy from my university days which would seem
to have merit here:  If you use a conventional tire pressure gauge to
measure tire pressure, the act of taking the measurement will itself
cause some air to be released from the tire.  Do it enough times and
you'll have a flat tire.  ;)

jc

-----Original Message-----
From: John Senior [mailto:js at irishbroadband.ie]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:16 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Hosts with no services?


I disagree - I have many many devices on my network that I just need to 
know are alive with a ping - these devices just provide connectivity, things 
like switches, customer routers etc.  A simple ping is all that's required, 
no more.  I have plenty of hosts with more complex services (web, mail, dns 
etc.) that Nagios fits fine - but sometimes a ping is enough.  I too am using 
fping to provide the kind of info that I would rather integrate into Nagios. 
Regards, 
John. 
-- 
John Senior <js at irishbroadband.ie> 


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