Monitoring Hosts without use plugins

[Hugo Canalli]

...same does not apply for 3.x...

:(

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Jon Angliss <jon at netdork.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:05:02 -0500, Sean McAfee
> <smcafee at collaborativefusion.com> wrote:
>
> >Hugo Canalli wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> I need to monitor to see if hosts are UP or DOWN, but my hosts are
> >> network devices that can not be installed any plugin for nagios as the
> >> NCSA.
> >> What we need is that the nagios track every time and let a message
> >> (sends a message by email or cell phone) if the host is down (without
> >> using any type of plugin for the device monitored. On the server
> >> management can be installed plugins nagios if necessary.)
> >> Do it possible with nagios?
> >>
> >> Version used: 3.0.6 nagios
> >>
> >> --
> >> -t-
> >The only difference between host and service checks are that host checks
> >are not schedule and are only execed when a service check fails.  In the
> >end, generic-host-alive will still be using check_ping.
>
> Are you sure this is still the case?  I'm pretty sure 3.x does host
> checks on a scheduled basis now.  At least I'm seeing pings to all my
> hosts every minute.  I believe that theory might have been correct for
> 2.x, but from what I have read the same does not apply for 3.x (see 17
> in the what's new for v3).
>
> --
> Jon Angliss
>
>
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