System appears as down, but services are being monitored

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Perhaps the definition for the check_host command for your host is wrong 
or not succeeding, but your service commands are?

Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
>
> Hi there –
>
> I am monitoring a Windows XP system that has the NSClient version 1.06 
> software on it. The Nagios server is running version 2.6
>
> on a Fedora Core 5 system. The remote workstation shows up as being 
> down, but the services that I am monitoring on the
>
> workstation, diskspace and McAfee AntiVirus are sending back 
> information to the server.
>
> What would cause this to occur, and how do I correct it?
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