host checks - ping service

Terry td3201 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 7 20:04:54 CEST 2006


My thinking is right then.  I don't really care about response time. 
But, in the event I do, I will set up ping appropriately.  Thanks for
the help.


On 4/7/06, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Terry
> > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:10 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] host checks - ping service
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I think I am confusing myself here as I migrate to 2.0.  It is
> > pointless to have a ping service for a host that has a host
> > check_command specified (assuming its check-host-alive), correct?
>
> If that host has other services associated with it, then you are
> correct. If the PING service is the only service associated with the
> host then you still need it. You _could_ schedule regular checks of the
> host but it's not recommended at this point.
>
> > Nagios will, in my case, ping the host if a service check fails
> > anyways, right?
>
> Yes.
>
> --
> Marc
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