Monitoring a service
A service is a check point, or indicator, to be monitored on a host, e.g.: percentage of partition used on a server, ink level in a printer.
To see the list of monitored services, go to Configuration > Services > Services by host.
You can:
Monitoring a service
Create a service:
Use the host autodiscovery feature: the corresponding services will be created automatically.
Create a host manually using a Plugin Pack, and select Create Services linked to the Template too: the services for the host will be created automatically.
Use the service discovery feature.
Create the service manually and, in the Template field, select a service template (coming from a Plugin Pack or not).
Create a check command or use an existing one, and link it to a service you have created manually.
Create a service using the API.