Ping service

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Bill Kimura
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:15 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Ping service
> 
> Is it necessary to create  PING service, or does the host definition
> already take care of that?  I currently have a PING service defined
> for all my hosts, but the host definitions all include the check-host-
> alive
> command.  I'm wondering if the PING service is redundant.

If you have at least one other service defined for the host then it's
redundant. As a general rule, every host needs to have at least one
service definition to be checked.

--
Marc


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