Nagios Host Check

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Wed May 17 16:08:51 CEST 2006


You'll have to define a service check that will change state when there
is a problem. Most of us use check_ping in cases like this.

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Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ron Wilson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 6:17 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios Host Check
> 
> 
> OK I accept that but if it is something like an external router or
> similar where there is nothing else I need to check or can check, I
jus
> want to know if it is down, what service can I define so that it keeps
> Nagios happy. Can I do a dummy service connectivity check?
> 
> 
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios Host Check
> >
> 
> > I have several hosts that I just want to check connectivity nothing
> else.
> > If I put the hosts in the hosts file Nagios complains that there are
> no
> > services defined for this hosts. It still works but I want to get
rid
> of
> > the error message. Do I need to create some form of dummy service to
> 
> > remove error message
> 
> You need to define at least one service that is checked per host.
> 
> http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=39 and first section of
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html


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