Too stupid? Services are available, but nagios reports host to be down!

[Steve Shipway]

> I've a list of hosts, these hosts are not available for ping, but
normal
> service checks (SSH, SMTP, ...) work. Nagios reports theses hosts
beeing
> down! Ugly!

On our system, we too have a small subset of hosts which cannot be
pinged.  However, they can be SSH'ed.  So, I defined a new test,
check-host-alive-ssh which used an SSH connection rather than a ping,
and define this as the host_check_command for the hosts in question.
This allows Nagios to continue to work as expected.

Steve

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