check_http issue

[Shashank Kamble]

Bingo, thanx Assaf. It worked.

Cheers,
Shashank

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Assaf Flatto <nagios at flatto.net> wrote:

> 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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