Host Down

[Marc Powell]

On Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:44 PM, Paul L. Allen shared with us:

> Gerald Wichmann writes:
> 
> > Needless to say if I manually run check_host_alive according to
> > checkcommand.cfg from the distributed nagios server that monitors
> > the new hosts I've added it comes back as the host being OK.

[snip]
 
> That still doesn't explain your problem, if your manual
> check_host_alive test actually worked for the host.  Have you checked
> very carefully that what you are doing manually really is what your
> configuration causes to happen on a check_host_alive?  Are you
> manually using an IP address where your configuration uses a domain
> name or vice versa?     
> Did you run that check from the nagios server itself or from another
> machine? 


Another possibility is that the check_host_alive command isn't
executable as the nagios user (i.e. ping isn't suid or executable by
nagios).

--
Marc


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