check_http issue

[Assaf Flatto]

Shashank Kamble wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  
>
> I am newbie to Nagios. I successfully installed Nagios and its 
> monitoring most of our windows and Linux servers. Currently, I am 
> having issues with the one of the website we support for our client. I 
> defined a host and also defined an http service to monitor the website:
>
>  
>
> Here is host and service definition to monitor a website.
>
>  
>
> define host{
>
>          use                      windows-server
>
>          host_name           illinoistollway
>
>          alias                    illinoistollway
>
>          address                www.illinoistollway.com 
> <http://www.illinoistollway.com/>
>
>          contact_groups      admins
>
>          }
>
>  
>
> define service {
>
>         use                                   local-service
>
>         host_name                       IllionisHighway
>
>         service_description                         HTTP
>
>         check_command                  check_http
>
>         }
>
>  
>
> But I am getting an error that host is down and service is not 
> monitored as well.
>
>  
>
> Could you please guide me how to resolve this issue?
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shashank
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Before you added the host , did you make sure you can ping it ?
did you also try to manually as the user nagios can execute the 
check_http script and get a proper response ?

By default check_host_alive and check_http expect an IP address in the " 
address " Feild , not a FQDN .
and that might be what is throwing your nagios of game.

Change the "address"  to the IP address and see what response you get .

Assaf


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