why the Ping service is still being checked?

Ling Zhang lzhang at lbl.gov
Tue Jul 13 00:50:02 CEST 2004


No "ping" service was defined for that server. I am very sure about
that. It almost looks like the Ping service is checked by default,
unless I turned it off some where. 

Ling


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Rodriguez [mailto:nagios-users at gurugeek.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:43 PM
To: Ling Zhang
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] why the Ping service is still being checked?

You've probably created a "ping" service. Search your services.cfg for a
service 
named "ping"

Jeff

Ling Zhang wrote:
> 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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