Marc Powell <> wrote on Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:28 PM: > You must define at > least one service for every host if you want it to be checked. This > requirement is likely to change with nagios-3.
Thanks to all the respondees. I'd vote for that change as it seems counterintuitive to me to not check the status of something that Nagios knows is important (parent or grandparent to all other hosts), and also the average router doesn't really run a "service" IMHO, though ping would have to work to check the status anyway, I think. Sounds like I need to set up a host profile for routers that has at least the ping service. As for active/passive, what you all describe makes sense. It's just not documented that I could find. The "Service Check Scheduling" doc page for instance doesn't contain the word "active," nor does "Determining Status and Reachability of Network Hosts." - Steve Yates - ITS, Inc. - I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ~ Taglines by Taglinator - www.srtware.com ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null