Service checks when host is down

[Morris, Patrick]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Hari Sekhon
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:36 AM
> To: vex
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks when host is down
> 
> 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....

Why would you need both?  The sole purpose of host checks is to keep you
from being alerted on services when the host is down.  If you want
service alerts on a down host, you don't want a host check.  It's really
pretty simple.

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