Service checks when host is down

[Hari Sekhon]

I agree that it is a very good to have both, so if anyone has any good 
ideas on this then please send them this way....

-h

Hari Sekhon



vex wrote:
> On 10/13/06, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  good question, it's sometimes more important to know what services are
>> down, since you may not remember what that hostname actually does (or it
>> could have loads of services on it that you may not be able to remember
>> everything that isn't working).
>>
>>  I would also like to consider doing this actually. How should I got 
>> about
>> this?
>>
>>  If I don't put in a check command in the host definition, will I 
>> continue
>> to receive service down notifications and not host down notifications?
>
> If you don't define a check command in the host definition you have
> found a good workaround to manage your (my) problem. But for several
> (boring) reasons I would like to have both the notifications for hosts
> and services ... and I'm very afraid that's not possible, is it?
>
> A.
>
>

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