Host checks instead of service checks

[Deborah Martin]

Thanks Richard. I'll give that a try. 

regards,
deborah 


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Quintin [mailto:rich+nagios at quintinz.com] 
Sent: 16 March 2009 15:26
To: Deborah Martin
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host checks instead of service checks

You could use check_dummy for the host check and just have it always return
OK.
Or perhaps the opposite you could add a check_dummy service check for all
hosts.

Which you choose will depend upon your personal preference and how you want
dependencies to be handled.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Deborah Martin
<Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Currently, the main nagios box (running old version of SuSE) and 
> Nagios
> 2.0b4 is running just with service checks, one of which is an ssh 
> check (we don't allow ping)
>
> So in the web interface, I see all hosts as up.
>
> However, I've built a new box (which hopefully will replace the above) 
> with SLES 10SP1 and Nagios 3.0.6. I've put the same config files 
> (services.cfg and hosts.cfg)
>
> on the this new system. But now the hosts all show as "Pending". So I 
> then moved the ssh check from a service check to a host check and can 
> see that the more hosts I move the  less hosts are pending. That's good so
far...
>
> But, when I run the pre-flight check (/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v 
> nagios.cfg), I now get warnings to say some hosts don't have any 
> service checks associated with it!
>
> This is true as some nodes will only have ssh checks against them 
> whilst others will have other checks against them. I'd rather it 
> didn't warn me as I have hundreds
>
> of hosts appear in the pre-flight check warnings and it now looks 
> incredibly untidy to see all this.
>
> How can I get rid of these warnings ?
>
> I'm probably missing something here so any help would be appreciated. 
> I'm wondering for example, if I should force the initial state to be 
> UP for hosts rather than
>
> moving the ssh service check to a host check. But then what would 
> happen if the service check found a node was down - would it reflect 
> that in the "host problems" ?
>
> regards,
> deborah
>
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