Hello all, What is the difference between checking a host is alive with a check in the host template (check_command check-host-alive), and creating a ping service applied to the host ? I did a test with both configurations, and didn't see a different behavior.
I thought it was a question of dependencies: if a service fails, a host check is done to check if the host is up. But if one of the services (ping or another) fails, a host check is done anyway even if my host checks are disabled (check_interval 0), (that's a correct behavior for me) My configuration doesn't have host checks because it was imported from Nagios 2.x, and disabling host checks was an optimization setting I've read somewhere (I also read that it's not necessary anymore with nagios 3) . Now I'm running Nagios 3, so I'm wondering if it would make sense to disable the ping service checks and do it as a host check. Why should I do /don't do this ? Thanks! -- L.B. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
