Host last check time

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

On 9/18/2006 1:29 PM, Wessel van Heerde wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm managing a small Nagios environment which contains about 30  
> hosts. The host detail page in the interface shows me that the last  
> check time of these hosts is about 234 days ago. Why is it such a  
> long time ago this host was checked?

Because hosts are only checked when there is a service problem. This is 
documented.

> I recently (some days ago) added some new hosts, but their state is  
> still pending. What is taking Nagios so long to check them.

As long as the services assigned to he hosts are checked everything is 
fine. If you don't have services at these hosts, assign one - check_ping 
or check_icmp, for example, are a common choice.

Arno


> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Wessel
> 
> 
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