Ping Disallowed

[Menard, Chris]

I use the check_ssh to test a couple servers that are on the other side a firewall.  We have an SSH hole to allow maintenance.  This hole is only available from a single host...which is NOT the host that is running nagios.  

I use nrpe on the allowed host to run check_ssh

-----Original Message-----
From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:assaf.flatto at ssp-intl.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:50 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Ping Disallowed

What other services are you able to monitor on the server ?

You can change the host check command to something else 
If a web port is open you can change it to check_http  with e very short timeout .

Not as good , but will help .

Assaf

On Monday 10 August 2009 13:45:38 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.
>
> Thanks
>
> Martyn



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Assaf Flatto
SSP Ops Team
Linux System Administrator
169 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AE





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