In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Oliver Marshall" writes:
>I have a server at a remote site which uses a router that WONT allow
>forwarding of ICMP (aka ping) traffic to the server. As a result, the
>check-host-alive command for that server currently actually shows the
>state of the router, not the server itself.
>
>This isn't good for me as the adsl line they use is up and down like a
>yo-yo.

Can you get traps from the ASDL equipment or router?

>Is there a command I can create using NSClient++ that will check to see
>the state of the host WITHOUT pinging, perhaps instead using a check of
>the NSClient++ itself.

I assume this is a windows box since you mention nsclient++. How about
a check_tcp against the nsclient++ port? Are ther other network
services on that box that you monitor?

                                -- rouilj
John Rouillard
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