Thomas Thanks for your reply.
> You can use check_dummy for the service... In Nagios 3 with regularly > scheduled hosts checks it should work. Well, at the moment I only have about 20 hosts being tested, and even though I have check_interval set to 1 in the host definition, looking at the scheduling queue, I can see that host checks are only occurring every 80 seconds. When I've added about 200 more hosts I'm wondering if this time lag will increase. If that is the case, then I guess I will have to use check_ping after all. > In Nagios 2 hosts check were normally on-demand so it wouldn't work if > your service always returns OK. Interesting. I never used Nagios 2. According to check_dummy -h: This plugin will simply return the state corresponding to the numeric value of the <state> argument with optional text Am I right in thinking that this does not actually perform a test? It just returns a state (OK, Warning etc) depending on the argument you give to check_dummy. Is that correct? If that is the case, is there really any point in using it for my purposes. Obviously it prevents the Nagios warnings, but other than that is it really serving any purpose? Thanks Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
