Hosts with no services?

[John Senior]

Hi there folks,

I have a lot of hosts that I just want to ping and see if they
are alive - These are devices like switches, routers etc. that
I just want to know are 'alive.'  What is the best way to
achieve this?   At the moment I create a host and give it a
single service which is a ping, but this is rather redundant -
what does everyone else do?  I have 100s of devices that are like
this, for the most part I don't even want alerts sent - just a visual
indication on the status page that there is a problem with these
hosts.

I'd like to do this with Nagios if possible, if not, does anyone have
any suggestions for something more appropriate?

All the best,

John.

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John Senior <js at irishbroadband.ie>



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