How-to DO NOT check_alive host?

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 15:51:07 CEST 2008


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Christian Schneemann
<cschneemann at suse.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> you can define the check-host-alive in your templates, so if you have some
> hosts that don't accept icmp-packets you can change it to any checkcommand
> you want.
>
> Have a look into the documentation at host definition
> (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#host)


Agreed. I'd go this route with a plugin that will always return true,
or use tcping to test if the machine is reachable that way.


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