<!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"> good question, it's sometimes more important to know what services are down, since you may not remember what that hostname actually does (or it could have loads of services on it that you may not be able to remember everything that isn't working). I would also like to consider doing this actually. How should I got about this? If I don't put in a check command in the host definition, will I continue to receive service down notifications and not host down notifications? -h <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Hari Sekhon</pre> Morris, Patrick wrote: <blockquote cite="midCD18C81835E18A40A64C4A0D16A237BE05B311C3@ATAEXC01.americas.cpqcorp.net" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I need that Nagios checks the service status and sends service notifications even if the host status is DOWN. Is it possible? Does Nagios already do that? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> No. If you need this, you probably don't want a host check. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642">http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>