1.3: Cannot ping a host, so how do I tell if it is "up"?

[fire-eyes]

I'm using 1.3.

When I define a host, the only command defined which I see I can use is
check-host-alive. This uses ping to determine if it is "UP". What could
I do to determine if it is up, if I can't ping it, since the host drops
those?

I figure I could fall back to a tcp port, however I tried
check_tcp!someport but nagios doesn't like the "!someport" in hosts.cfg.

Any ideas?


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