Passive host checks?

[Drew Myers]

I'll try to rephrase.

If all of a host's services fail, is it reasonable to expect nagios to
mark the host as failed? How do I achieve this with passive-only checks?

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Myers 
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:00 AM
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Passive host checks?


I am currently monitoring a number of remote hosts passively using REL
to email the results back to me. In the event all the inbound mails
bounce, nagios receives no updates, fails freshness checks, and the
services generate alerts, as I would expect.

Is there something I have to do to generate a passive host check, or is
this tied to the passive service checks?  I would expect if all the
service checks fail for a particular host, that the host would then also
show an alert, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

How do I configure the host to generate alerts if service checks fail?

Thanks,

Drew

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