-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jon Angliss wrote: > You're actually "inviting a world of hurt" doing it the other way > around (service ping over host check). Host checks will help surpress > service notifications, as well as help manage network reachability if > you use parents (see [1]). Take for example, a host you have FTP, > HTTP, and your ping check on. If you the host goes down, the ping > service will show down, but FTP, and HTTP tests will also show > unreachable, or timeout, causing 3 notifications. If the host check > was to be used, you'd get a notification the host was down, rather > than 3 to report host issues. You can, of course, work around this > with service dependencies, but that complicates your configuration.
Excellent. This is pretty much what I gathered from various sources, but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks! - -- - --------------------------- Jason Frisvold Network Engineer frisv...@lafayette.edu - --------------------------- "What I cannot create, I do not understand" - Richard Feynman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoRmhgACgkQO80o6DJ8Uvk6GQCdFUeiXP/UiDgc1x0Oy0zAnYUT qPMAmgO182D64vaqHqZ8L2Il3FJwHDpm =Hgpf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ 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