Everything works! But I want more!

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mark D. Nagel
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 10:48 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Everything works! But I want more!
> 
> Ben Hyde wrote:
> 
> > That's only marginally different than what I was doing and I still
get
> > a "Pending" label in my status map for my equivalent of some-hub.  I
> > guess my real question boils down to: "What is considered the
'right'
> > way to represent objects in my status map that can not be actively
or
> > passively monitored."
> >
> > Possibly the answer is the above and I should just learn to think of
> > the "Pending" label as denoting that no useful info is available for
> > this component.
> 
> You get Pending even with the host in a hostgroup?  You have to
include
> it in a hostgroup for it to be checked.  The check should succeed
> always, so it should read as 'OK' in that case.

This is almost completely inaccurate information. While membership in a
hostgroup is a requirement, it really has nothing to do with whether
hosts are actually checked or not. Hosts are never checked until a
service on the host fails. No service definition == no possibility of a
host check so the host is always PENDING. If the initial check of a
service on the host returns OK, the host is assumed to be OK as well. If
it fails then the host itself is checked via its specified
check_command. This is documented in several locations. 

>From previous postings, Ben doesn't appear to have a service of any sort
defined for his dummy host so it will always be pending. He can resolve
that by following my previous suggestion.

--
Marc



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