Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Hari Sekhon wrote: >> Proskurin Kirill wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> Im have some servers what don`t accept any icmp packets. >>> Im check http port on it. But nagios by default does check_alive - >>> and say what host is down. >>> >>> How can im evade this? >> use the "negate" program to invert the meaning of the check_ping plugin? > > Umm, no. That won't work very well at all, as the host then will seem > to be up no matter if it's on fire or whatever happens to it. > > A more appropriate method would be to check something else on the host > that the host can (and does) respond to properly. TCP connections to > some random (open) port is usually a fairly decent bet. > Yes you're right, I don't use negate myself, must have misread the question.
Switching the host check to a service check, in this case check_http would be more appropriate. -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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
