dont check service when host down

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:hpsekhon at googlemail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:08 PM
> To: Giles Coochey
> Cc: Ton Voon; Marc Powell; Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down
> 
> 
> Giles Coochey wrote:
> > I thought about this when writing my post on this particular thread,
but
> > then thought - how do I find out that the host has recovered from
its
> > downtime?
> >
> Is this not the defined point of host checks?

Nope. Not in Nagios-2 and prior. Hosts are only checked when a service
on that host changes state. Service goes critical, host is checked.
Service recovers, host is checked. At no time in between is the host
checked.

--
Marc

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