Check_mk monitoring capabilities

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every host has automatically an host check and this is a normal ping if you don’t use the enterprise edition

If you mean the time then you get this automatically also with the agent output from your host as difference to your monitoring system

The agent has some possible configuration options for this.

From the example config file.

logwatch:
    # enabled: yes
    # sendall: no   # this is MANDATORY
    # vista_api: no # this is RECOMMENDED
    # max_size: 500000 # default value
    # entries in the windows eventlog
    logfile:
        # - 'EventLogName': <crit|warn|all|off> + [context|nocontext]
        # - 'Application': crit context # example
        # - 'System': warn nocontext    # another example
        # - 'YourOwn': all nocontext    # yet another example
        # - '*': warn nocontext         # This is default params for not missing entries

What you see is that it is not possible to set a general failure counter you need to transfer the events to CMK and then process these events than there.

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