Host Availability and Several Important Questions

[rushowr]

Host Status is not computed unless agent.ping is employed from what I can see, but what if the agent or host is down?

icmpping is broken in beta4, so I've had to employ a custom userparameter that uses an agent on the monitoring server to fping the host(s) I want to monitor.

When is the slated for resolution? Not to be inflammatory, but how is it a monitoring system can be released in beta 4 and the availability checks do not work? Am I missing a working item?

Lastly, why isn't there a trigger to see if there was no data from a host? I'm testing for <1 value on several items but don't get notified if the items return no data.

Just some feedback and questions

[Alexei]

Host Status is not computed unless agent.ping is employed from what I can see, but what if the agent or host is down?

Host Status is calculated regardless of agent.ping. It just requires any agent check.

icmpping is broken in beta4, so I've had to employ a custom userparameter that uses an agent on the monitoring server to fping the host(s) I want to monitor. When is the slated for resolution?

Already fixed in CVS.

Not to be inflammatory, but how is it a monitoring system can be released in beta 4 and the availability checks do not work? Am I missing a working item?

Well, it is BETA...

Lastly, why isn't there a trigger to see if there was no data from a host? I'm testing for <1 value on several items but don't get notified if the items return no data.

Use nodata() to check if no data retrieved within some time period.