why the Ping service is still being checked?

[Ling Zhang]

Hi, there,

I have configured Nagios to monitor the HTTP service on a server that
does not respond to Pings. To avoid letting nagios assuming the server
host is down, I specified nagios to check host status with a check-dummy
command, which will always return with an "UP" status. However, although
never defined anywhere in my configuration files, nagios kept checking
the "PING" service on that server and reported "ping service" down, even
the host status is "UP" and the HTTP service on that server is "OK".

Here is the host definition and service definition of that specific
server:

################ host definition######################

define host {
        use             some-host-tmpl
        host_name       server.abcd.com
        alias           server.abcd.com
        address         1.2.3.4
        check_command   check-dummy 			;always return
"up"
        parents         parent.abcd.com     
}

################ service Definition ##################

define service { 
        use                             default-service 
        host_name                       server.abcd.com
        service_description             HTTP
        check_command                   check_HTTP
}

So, any idea why is that?

Thanks.

Ling




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