Automatic Host Checks

[Jason Martin]

Nagios does not intrinsically know how to check anything,
so unless you've defined a command for a given type of check
Nagios isn't doing it.

-Jason Martin


On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:15:41AM -0500, Tim Stoddard wrote:
> I have been reading through the docs and I cannot find a definitive 
> answer to this.  Does Nagios do a ICMP host check automatically?  Is 
> this something that need to put in the nagios.cfg file?  I have been 
> defining an ICMP "check-host-alive" command on each host.  Now I think 
> that Nagios is double ICMP checking all hosts. 
> 

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