check host alive by passive

[D.Parise at iaea.org]

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Not really: the point is that I want the host to be down when a certain service is down and the service is passive. I am monitoring some systems connected in dial up, that why I can't use active or ping.

Regards,

Davide


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From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Hugo van der Kooij
Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2007 07:57
To: Nagios Users mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check host alive by passive

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, D.Parise at iaea.org wrote:

> One question: how can I use something like check host alive only with
> passive checks? I have for one host only one passive service, and I
> would like the status of the host to go to critical if this service is
> critical.

Hosts and services are two different things. It sounds like you want to 
abandon that concept.

Hugo.

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