On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ilan Berkner <[email protected]> wrote: > newbie question... > I have a service defined in my services.cfg file that looks like this: > define service { > use generic-service > host_name myserver > service_description PING > check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60% > } > in my hosts file have "myserver" defined with an address tag: > www.myserver.com > when the check_ping command runs, does it check the ping status against > www.myserver.com even though I'm not specifically specifying the host in the > check_ping command? > thanks > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes, it will. Check the check_ping command and you will see %HOSTADDRESS% as the argument to it. I thought you had to explicitly enable DNS lookups in the main nagios configuration section though. May want to check on that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
