why is nagios pinging servers?

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

That's all fine and dandy, but what do you have defined for the host definition?  If you're using the default check-host-alive, and if that is still configured to use the default check_ping in checkcommands.cfg, that could be your problem.
 
You might want to set up a check-host-dummy to utilize the check_dummy plugin.
 
(Of course, I could be completely off-base, since I've never set up passives, but... give it a try?)
 
Food for thought.
 
jc
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:gwichman at zantaz.com]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:43 AM
To: Nagios (E-mail)
Subject: [Nagios-users] why is nagios pinging servers?


nagios    1781  0.0  0.1  1508  448 ?        S    17:35   0:00 /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.1.82.35
 
 
I'm getting hosts showing as down still even after redeploying on RH73.. I think there's something wrong in my config as my server should only be accepting passive results, not trying to ping IP's that it can't even talk to in the first place (all hosts are behind firewalls and monitored via distributed servers). What variable controls these active ping checks? My services.cfg ping doesn't seem to be the culpret because even if I comment out the entire PING service, nagios still does it..
 
# Service definition
define service{
        use                             generic-service         ; Name of service template to use
 
        host_name                       *
        service_description             PING
        is_volatile                     0
        check_period                    24x7
       active_checks_enabled            0
        passive_checks_enabled          1
        check_freshness                 1
        freshness_threshold             600
        max_check_attempts              3
        normal_check_interval           10
        retry_check_interval            5
        contact_groups                  linux-admins
        notification_interval           120
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_options            c,r
        check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
        }
 
 
 
Gerald Wichmann
Senior Systems Development Engineer
Zantaz, Inc.
925.598.3099 (w)
 


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