Suppressing service notifications if host fails

[Mott Leroy]

Hi Alex -

It seems like this was the case. Someone had actually physically 
restarted the server (i had no idea) because all the services were down, 
but the host itself was still responding to a ping request.

Anyhow, thanks -

Noah

Parkinson, Alex wrote:
> Hi Mott,
> 
> I do not know what service checks have been configured for the failed host.
> That being said, it may be the case that the failed host was still
> responding to ping, whilst the higher level services had failed.
> 
> I have found it useful to configure ping as a service check to give a visual
> indication of the state of the host - this is duplicate some of the ping
> checking of a host.
> 
> 
> Regards,
>  
> Alex Parkinson
> Senior Communications / Security Administrator


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