Monitoring a server that you can't ping

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 15:34, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> change the check_command for the host definition to something that can be 
> reached.

e.g use check_tcp on an open port instead of check_ping. Ping your most
reliable TCP service, and use that.

if you are desparate, 'check_duumy 0' will work, but will have the
opposite problem - the server can never show as down.

> 
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Danny Shurett wrote:
> 
> > I am monitoring a server for that sits in a data center that does not
> > allow ping.  I am able to do service checks on all the devices, but once
> > a device fails and the server is pinged, the server will continually
> > show as "down" even though all services are up.  What can I do for this
> > situation?
> > 
> > If this has been asked before, I appologize for the redundancy.  I
> > wasn't even sure what to search on for this problem.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your wise words
> > 
-- 
Karl DeBisschop <karl at debisschop.net>



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