Hi all, i've done the same for my loadbalancer-cluster. I use the HTTP-check as check_command in the hostconfig to ensure that the single nodes are up.
Kind regards, Dennis Hünseler _________________________________________________________ Dennis Hünseler | System-Administrator TWT Interactive GmbH | Martinstraße 47-55 | D-40223 Düsseldorf Tel: +49 (0)211 601 601-0 | Fax: +49 (0)211 601 601-19 TWT Niederlassung Berlin | Friedrichstraße 90 | D-10117 Berlin Tel: +49 (0)30 20 25 3562 | Fax: +49 (0)30 20 25 3333 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.twt.de TWT - your eValue Partner Geschäftsführung: Marcel Kreuter; Hans J. Even Sitz der Gesellschaft und Gerichtstand: Düsseldorf, Amtsgericht Düsseldorf, HRB 42097 www.salescatalog.de - Kunden begeistern, Umsätze steigern mit blätterbaren Online-Katalogen www.digitalnext.de - Informationsportal für die digitale Wirtschaft -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 11:04 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a service if ICMP to the host isblocked Hi, 23.07.2007 08:42,, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:: > Hi, all! > > We are monitoring an external FTP server that is not in our > control but that we depend on for a certain part of our business. > > After the FTP service failed for a short period of time on > Saturday, the host was flagged "down" and has not come up > since. I just found out that the other admin blocks ICMP. > The FTP server works fine, though. I wonder if they have > "misterious" problems with customers that have an MTU > slightly less than 1500 somewhere in their path ;-)) > > Is there a way to tell Nagios not to bother checking > if a host is alive with ICMP echo and just continue checking > the service instead? Sure... either simply remove the host check from the hosts definition, or - what I would do - use the ftp check as a host check also. Arno > > Thanks a lot, > Patrick -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
