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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