check_ping service question

[Terry]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ilan Berkner <iberkner at gmail.com> wrote:
> newbie question...
> I have a service defined in my services.cfg file that looks like this:
> define service {
> use generic-service
> host_name myserver
> service_description PING
> check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
> }
> in my hosts file have "myserver" defined with an address tag:
> www.myserver.com
> when the check_ping command runs, does it check the ping status against
> www.myserver.com even though I'm not specifically specifying the host in the
> check_ping command?
> thanks
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes, it will.  Check the check_ping command and you will see
%HOSTADDRESS% as the argument to it.  I thought you had to explicitly
enable DNS lookups in the main nagios configuration section though.
May want to check on that.

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