hosts.cfg and ping question

[kollasch.drew at bvrmc.org]

Sorry, but that is way off base. Basically how I figured out the reports
weren't right, is that we have a server that reboot at 2AM everyday and
takes approx 45 minutes to come back up. Rather than have to come in and
watch it, I was using the report to see how long it was actually down for.
This was all fine and dandy for a cpl days. After I had gotten some other
things to work (nagios process monitoring, authentication, and added lots of
additional hosts, services etc) the reporting no longer works. I will post
this back to the list as well, so that I don't have to repeat myself.

As far as downtime goes, by scheduling it, I am still not sure if that
counts on the reports as downtime, but that is not an issue in the least
right now.

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Drew Kollasch
Network/Desktop Technician
Buena Vista Regional Medical Center
kollasch.drew at bvrmc.org
712-732-4455x2153


-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Catellier [mailto:julie.catellier at vanderbilt.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 11:12 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] hosts.cfg and ping question


When I first set up Nagios, I was able to set the check_command to 
check-host-alive and everything worked well.  Now, the initial 
hosts that I set up in hosts.cfg automatically ping for the host 
without any entry in the 'check-command' and I am not able to 
check-host-alive in any new host entries.  Is there any entry that 
overrides the hosts.cfg configuration?  Below is an example.  The 
imap1 entry does not check-host-alive.  The smtp3 entry 
automatically pings the host.  I also double checked that 
check-host-alive does work for these hosts from the command line. 
Any Ideas?

# 'smtp3' host definition
define host{
        use                     its-host                ; Name of 
host template to use
        host_name               smtp3.x.x.x
        alias                   VUmail: Mail Transport server
        address                 xx.xx.xx.xx
        }
# 'imap1' host definition
define host{
        use                     its-host                ; Name of 
host template to use
        host_name               imap1.x.x.x
        alias                   VUmail: Personal mailbox server
        address                 xx.xx.xx.xx
        check_command           check-host-alive
        notification_interval   120
        notification_period     24x7
        max_check_attempts      10
        }

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Julie Catellier
Vanderbilt University
Information Technology Services
Email: julie.catellier at Vanderbilt.Edu



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