<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> well, think about it, if you have service down alerts you may think that the service is broken or crashed or switched off. If you see both service and host alerts then you know which services are broken and you can also immediately see that it is due to the machine being down, so you don't waste time trying to remotely connect to it. It's more informative. The problem with host alerts is it is easy to miss what services are broken, since you can have many services on one host. If you have, for example, 9 things being monitored on a server, and the server goes down, you may only be thinking of 5 or 6 services that it hosts, so you would not be aware that another 3-4 services are also down. It's about awareness (and wanting to spam your inbox with more emails ;-) ). -h <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Hari Sekhon</pre> Morris, Patrick wrote: <blockquote cite="midCD18C81835E18A40A64C4A0D16A237BE05B3121A@ATAEXC01.americas.cpqcorp.net" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-----Original Message----- From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:36 AM To: vex Cc: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks when host is down I agree that it is a very good to have both, so if anyone has any good ideas on this then please send them this way.... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Why would you need both? The sole purpose of host checks is to keep you from being alerted on services when the host is down. If you want service alerts on a down host, you don't want a host check. It's really pretty simple. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>