Host checks not performed

Toto Capuccino shoktai at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 19:40:40 CET 2006


2006/12/14, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>:
>
> Toto Capuccino wrote:
> > Hi List fellows,
> >
> > I am trying to configure nagios 2.6 with the help of fruity. I have
> created
> > a few hosts which use the check-host-alive command provided in the
> sample
> > files. The check host alive command is part of my default host template
> > which i use on all the hosts.
> > Strangely only one host is appearing UP and all other remain in Pending
> > State after 40 minutes.
> >
>
> Nagios only checks hosts after a service on them have returned non-OK.
> If a service on the host returns OK without a hostcheck having been run,
> the status of the host is set to UP and the host-check output is set to
> "Services working, so host assumed to be up" (or something like that).
>
> In short, if you have no services defined for your hosts, they will
> never be checked (normally) and therefore never appear as UP or DOWN.
>
> --
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231


For sure i havent read the doc as deep as you did, i thought
check-host-alive were performed anyways every once in a while. Thanks for
sharing that knowledge, it is a help.
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