check_ping for service and host explanation

[Marc Powell]

On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:00 AM, shadih rahman wrote:

> if you look above, I have both service and host check_command is the  
> same check ("check_host_alive").  Now host is not checking on  
> regular time interval because I have the check_interval is set to  
> "0".  Lets say the service check fails,  at this point would nagios  
> perform on demand host check?

Yes.

> Also would nagios show host status as down and service status as  
> critical?

Yes.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/hostchecks.html kind of lays it  
out but the first two paragraphs of http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html 
  say it best, IMHO.

--
Marc



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