I fixed the problem by removing the check_host_alive statement from the Host Definition section of the CFG file.
Thanks for the quick responses. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 7:27 AM To: Hari Sekhon; Michael Egan Cc: Nagios Users Mailinglist Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Device is down but it isn't Use a check_dummy command for your host check so it always has an UP state Stephen Valdinger Dover Chemical Corporation MIS Helpdesk Guru 330.365.3622 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Spiderpig, Spiderpig, does whatever a Spiderpig does! Can he swing, from a web? No he can't, he's a pig. Look out! He is a Spiderpig!! -----Original Message----- From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:27 AM To: Michael Egan Cc: Nagios Users Mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Device is down but it isn't 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? > It's blocking pings. Change your host check to not ping, use some other method, or allow ping on your server. -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - 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/marketp lace _______________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
