regularly schedule host checks?

[Frater, Greg J]

Thanks Max!  I'll read up on cached checks, a lot has changed since 1.0.

Regards, 

-greg

-----Original Message-----
From: max.schubert at gmail.com [mailto:max.schubert at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Max
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:48 AM
To: Frater, Greg J
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] regularly schedule host checks?

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Frater, Greg J<GJFRATER at bechtel.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm wondering if there is any consensus from Nagios users regarding 
> scheduled host checks.  In general is it better to have Nagios 
> schedule host checks or is it better to use the old logic i.e. only 
> run the host check if a service check fails.  How do you turn off the 
> scheduled host checks in version 3?  I've been messing with some of 
> the host check settings but there's no obvious 'disable scheduled host checks'.

recommended method with Nagios 3 is to run regularly scheduled host checks and then use host check caching as this will keep Nagios from re-running the host check every time a service fails :):

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/cachedchecks.html

If you really do not want to use regularly scheduled host checks, set

active_checks_enabled 0

in your host definition, then a host check will only be run on-demand when a service check fails.

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