Hosts w/o services

Ford, Andy andyford at agedwards.com
Wed Apr 16 20:10:18 CEST 2008


<advice tag='unsolicited'>
There must be some reason for each server or device to be on the
network, it must provide some service, even if it's just a lowly(?)
sshd.
Do yourself and your organization a favor and monitor that reason!
</advice>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Israel Brewster
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:01 PM
> To: Nagios Users Mailinglist
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services
> 
> Running nagios 3.0, I have set up a number (most) of my hosts 
> without  
> services, since all I am interested in monitoring is the hosts  
> themselves. However, this is causing a number of little annoyances,  
> such as the hosts not showing up when I type their name into the  
> nagios sidebar search, throwing numerous warnings if I do a verify  
> from the command line, giving me a blank page when I click the  
> hostname link from the hostgroup overview page, etc. Is there 
> any way  
> around these issues other than adding a check_dummy service check to  
> each host? Thanks.

 


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