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another question is.. if i have to monitor a service, lets say smtp.google.com, i have to definitely define a host for it?

Sorry cause im doing nagios for a school assignment. So is it okay to ignore the warning and just monitor a host using ping without declaring a service for it?

Hello everyone i need some help understanding host and service notifications. What is the difference between host and service? When i define a host and dont define a service for that i get a warning. Is it okay? You basically can define the same thing for host as for service. So when should i define...