Host shows down while all services but ping show OK

[Patrick Morris]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008, Masoud Tabrizi wrote:

> Hello All,
> I am trying to monitor a windows based host over the internal network using Nagios 2.9 and nrpe_nt.0.8.
> Ping is not allowed over the network; I have setup the hosts and am able to get response for the disk, cpu, memory, but the host itself shows down as ping is not allowed over the network. Is there any way to get around this?

Sure. Don't use a ping as a host check if you can't ping hosts. Use some
other check that does work.

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