Az wrote:
> Hari Sekhon wrote:
>> Indeed, that would be ok too, since then you can disable the host
>> check and rely entirely on service checks so you get all the service
>> checks.
>>
>> Almost as good. Of course it won't say host down, but it will say ping
>> failed so you can tell from that.
Hari Sekhon wrote:
Indeed, that would be ok too, since then you can disable the host check
and rely entirely on service checks so you get all the service checks.
Almost as good. Of course it won't say host down, but it will say ping
failed so you can tell from that.
Another down side
Indeed, that would be ok too, since then you can disable the host check
and rely entirely on service checks so you get all the service checks.
Almost as good. Of course it won't say host down, but it will say ping
failed so you can tell from that.
Another down side is that it will pollute you
> well, think about it, if you have service down alerts you may
> think that the service is broken or crashed or switched off.
> If you see both service and host alerts then you know which
> services are broken and you can also immediately see that it
> is due to the machine being down, so you
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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks when host is down
I agree that it is a very good to have both, so if anyone has
any good ideas on this then please
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I agree that it is a very good to have both, so if anyone has any good
ideas on this then please send them this way
-h
Hari Sekhon
vex wrote:
> On 10/13/06, Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> good question, it's sometimes more important to know what services are
>> down, since
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 actua
> 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?
No. If you need this, you probably don't want a host check.
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