Advice on host notifications

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cook, Garry [mailto:GWCOOK at mactec.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 11:48 PM
> To: Collins, Steve; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: MacIntosh, Ian
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Advice on host notifications
> 
> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > I have a situation here where, for the moment, I am unable to
> > do host checks on several hosts which are located at an
> > outsourced facility.  I have no access to ping, trace, udp,
> > etc.  The only thing I can really do is to check_http (which
> > I can do successfully).  We're working on some firewall rule
> > changes to allow for NSClient and NRPE, but they may take a little
> > while.
> >
> > What I want to do is continue to monitor the services I can
> > (limited, I know), but bypass the host issues.  What would be
> > the most appropriate approach here?
> 
> Make the host check use the check_http plugin instead of check_ping.

Or, if you don't like the redundancy, you can always just not specify a
host check command at all.

--
Marc



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