How to disable check-host-alive

[Daniel Bareiro]

On Sunday, 02 December 2007 10:43:25 -0600,
Marc Powell wrote:

> >>>> check_command: [...] If you leave this argument blank, the host
> >>>> will not be checked - Nagios will always assume the host is up.
> >>>> This is useful if you are monitoring printers or other devices
> >>>> that are frequently turned off.

> >> I didn't get errors after Nagios restart, but it continue
> >> displaying the host in down state, yet.

> > Well, Nagios didn't produce host notifications again. But, if Nagios
> > will always assume the host is up, why it continues displaying the
> > host in down state?
 
> I would guess that the template you were using had
> retain_status_information enabled. You removed it but nagios had
> already written out the down status to the retention file and used
> that on the restart. Try restarting nagios again. If that doesn't work
> you can probably stop nagios, edit the state retention file to remove
> the host stanza (making a backup first of course) and restart nagios.

I try adding 'retain_status_information 0' in host definition for Nagios
server. Now, its host status is 'pending' instead of 'down'. But the
default host initial state shouldn't be 'up'?

Thanks for your response, Marc.

Regards,
Daniel
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