On Jan 11, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Michael Egan wrote: > I am monitoring a Windows 2003 virtual machine. Nagios says the > server is down but when I click on the device all the monitors > (ping, disk space, load, etc) say OK. > > Why does Nagios think the server is down?
Mike, IIRC, Windows XP SP2 and newer block pings by default. This being the case, nagios' host check command (a ping by default) is going to think the system is down. Either pick a different host check command for your Windows boxen, or enable the receipt of pings through the built- in firewall. HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ 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
