How-to DO NOT check_alive host?

[Hari Sekhon]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Hari Sekhon wrote:
>> Proskurin Kirill wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> Im have some servers what don`t accept any icmp packets.
>>> Im check http port on it. But nagios by default does check_alive - 
>>> and say what host is down.
>>>
>>> How can im evade this?  
>> use the "negate" program to invert the meaning of the check_ping plugin?
>
> Umm, no. That won't work very well at all, as the host then will seem
> to be up no matter if it's on fire or whatever happens to it.
>
> A more appropriate method would be to check something else on the host
> that the host can (and does) respond to properly. TCP connections to
> some random (open) port is usually a fairly decent bet.
>
Yes you're right, I don't use negate myself, must have misread the question.

Switching the host check to a service check, in this case check_http 
would be more appropriate.

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon


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