monitoring unreachable hosts

[David Rosenstrauch]

Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote:
> This topic of unreachable hosts that's come up recently has got me
> thinking about an issue we have.  We have a few hosts that are behind
> proxies and as such are impossible to ping.  They have a single service
> which we can check through the proxy successfully.
> 
> I'm a little stuck on what to do with the host checks.

Might a passive check be the solution here?  I.e., instead of having the 
nagios box do an active check and try to connect out to the external 
hosts, perhaps there's a way to have the external host connect in to the 
nagios box periodically and say "I'm still here".

HTH,

DR

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