why the Ping service is still being checked?

[Ling Zhang]

Nope. I did not define a universal ping service and the grep didn't
return with any surprises. 

Ling


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Rodriguez [mailto:nagios-users at gurugeek.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 3:56 PM
To: Ling Zhang
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] why the Ping service is still being checked?

A ping /service/ does not exist by default. I'm guessing you created one

with a host_name of * which will ping everything.

grep -i ping services.cfg

Any output?

Jeff

Ling Zhang wrote:

>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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