On 12/18/05, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using 1.3. > > When I define a host, the only command defined which I see I can use is > check-host-alive. This uses ping to determine if it is "UP". What could > I do to determine if it is up, if I can't ping it, since the host drops > those? > > I figure I could fall back to a tcp port, however I tried > check_tcp!someport but nagios doesn't like the "!someport" in hosts.cfg. > > Any ideas? > >
tcping works quite well and check_tcp works, you're probably just not phrasing the check correctly for it. -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
