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.