Ping Disallowed

[Marc Powell]

On Aug 10, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Martyn wrote:

> Hi all
> We have a box that needs monitoring but ping has been blocked by  
> their firewall and they do not want to allow connections to this  
> port, what other way is there to check the host is alive if ping has  
> been disabled. At the minute host shows down but their services show  
> up.
>

You can use any check that you want. Pick one that represents to you  
the best indication that the host is up and doing what it's supposed  
to. If this were a web server for example, I might use check _http. If  
that's down, the host would be effectively down. check_ping is just  
the most common way of determining if a host is up. You need to be  
more creative.

--
Marc


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