Hosts with no services?

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Workable.

But as I've said before on the list, if you have a host connected
to the network and it's not providing a service, why have it
connected to the network at all?  The answer:  Because it
*is* providing a service.  All you need to do is figure out
at least one service that you'd like to monitor, and go from there.

Otherwise, you could be adding rocks which are ICMP-aware to
your network, to the same net/net effect.

Just my $0.02.

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Senior [mailto:js at irishbroadband.ie]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:08 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Hosts with no services?
> 
> 
> That's a neat way to do it - is there any way you can exclude
> particular hosts if you ever needed to?
> 
> I'm not much of a programmer so I won't be doing it myself, but
> I would love to see the 'serviceless' host added to Nagios - the
> number of hosts that I simply 'ping monitor' _far_ outweighs
> the number of more complex hosts (by a factor of 100:1 or more!).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John.
> 
> --
> John Senior <js at irishbroadband.ie>
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Valentine, Ray [mailto:RValentine at irmc.com]
> > Sent: 28 May 2003 16:57
> > To: Marc Powell; John Senior; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Hosts with no services?
> >
> >
> > I set up a service for ping and give it a "*" for the host,
> > this way everyone gets pinged but all I have to do is a
> > host definition.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc Powell [mailto:mpowell at ena.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:31 AM
> > To: John Senior; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Hosts with no services?
> >
> >
> > http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=39&expand=fals
> > e&showdesc=t
> > rue
> >
> > We do the same thing you have done.
> >
> > --
> > Marc
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Senior [mailto:js at irishbroadband.ie]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:19 AM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > --
> > > John Senior <js at irishbroadband.ie>
> > >
> > >
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