Thanks for the tip, but I am afraid I cannot understand how to do this
inside OMD?

I perhaps gave a bad example, all I want to do is add one of the checks
under Active Checks to a host. There are multiple checks possible there,
DNS, HTTP, SMB etc. How do I add one of these checks to a host?

-- 
Roald Amundsen


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:40 AM, marcin kowalski <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can define a host representing a website, and override the "host is
> up" check with whatever command that would  check if that website is up.
>
>
> I think that would be the simplest way.
>
>
> 2013/12/6 Roald <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just set up OMD and so far it works great. With a little help from you
>> I am now monitoring 5 vmware servers, and it looks great. Now I also want
>> to monitor some services that we depend on externally. I want to monitor
>> that an external webpage is up.
>>
>> I thought of setting up an active check for this, but I don't really
>> understand how to do this.
>>
>> I go to Host & Service Parameters, and then to Active Checks, and Check
>> HTTP Service and Create rule in Main directory.
>>
>> I specify the host I want to run the check on under Explicit hosts (the
>> name of the OMD-server)
>> In Name, I set the dnsname of the host I want to check the web service
>> on, and the Save
>>
>>  After that I go to Hosts & Folders and open my OMD-server, and press
>> Services. Under Active checks I can see the one I added, but it says PEND,
>> and "WAITING - Active check, cannot be done offline".
>>
>> I am sure there are some documentation I have missed, but I can't seem to
>> understand what to do?
>>
>> Any pointers?
>>
>> Regards Roald Amundsen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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