<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>To my knowledge:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Every defined host in hosts.cfg should have at least one service in service.cfg for things to work well.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The check-host-alive in hosts.cfg does a ping to see if the host is alive.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If the service defined in services.cfg is check_ping, then check-host-alive in hosts.cfg and check_ping in services do the same thing, right?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>So if a service check for host A for check_ping is for 24x7, then I will get notified 24x7</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>However, if the host actually goes down, then I will be notified only during work hours?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>That makes no sense...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=095030721-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you,</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Syed Ali</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>(609) 951-2989</FONT></SPAN> </P> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Cook, Garry [mailto:GWCOOK@mactec.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 10, 2003 4:04 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Syed Ali; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users] Priority of host versus services<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=200380021-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Neither. If a service goes CRITICAL (or perhaps WARNING), you will be notified 24x7. If a host actually goes down, you will only be notified during work hours.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=200380021-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=200380021-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>For further information on the difference between host and service checks, start here:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=200380021-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/networkreachability.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/networkreachability.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <P><FONT size=2>Garry W. Cook, CCNA<BR>Network Infrastructure Manager<BR>MACTEC, Inc. - <A href="http://www.mactec.com/">http://www.mactec.com/</A><BR>303.308.6228 (Office) - 303.881.5157 (Mobile) </FONT></P> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Syed Ali [mailto:syed@nec-labs.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 10, 2003 1:38 PM<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] Priority of host versus services<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT> </P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I have notification_period set for workhours in hosts.cfg and notification_period set for 24x7 in services.cfg for the same host, which one takes precedence?</FONT></P><BR> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you…</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>