host checks - which methods

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Dustin Krysak wrote:

> Hi there - I was wondering what most people here are using (which
> plugin) for host checks? I find the example comfig which uses the
> "check_ping" method sends WAY too many false positives. I understand
> that this could be a network traffic issue and so on, but I was just
> curious what others are using. My services never seem to give me any
> false positives though.

I think you have a host or network issue at hand. Even over internet I
never have an issue with missing a ping. Can you safely say that you do
not miss a single ping if run it for an hour?

But when in doubt you could always use some available tcp port and check
with a connect on that port.

Hugo.

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