Changing behavior of check-host-alive?

[Rutger Blom]

That sounds like the correct way of doing it.

/Rutger

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:51 PM, RT <rt at ragweed.net> wrote:

> Using: Nagios 3.2.2.
>
> By default, Nagios considers a host down if it is unreachable by ICMP. From
> what I understand, if a host is unreachable, then further notifications for
> the host are disabled.
>
> We have a hostgroup that is always reachable by ICMP (the hosts are usually
> exhausted of memory and hard-lock) and should only be considered "down" if
> SSH isn't available. The desired behavior would be to suppress all other
> notifications for the host if SSH is unreachable.
>
> Is this accomplished by altering the 'check_command check-host-alive'
> within the host template and creating a new 'check-host-by-ssh' command in
> the Command Definitions?
>
>  Thank you for your help.
>
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