check_ping service question

[Morris, Patrick]

  On 10/7/2010 2:41 PM, Ilan Berkner 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 <http://www.myserver.com>
>
> when the check_ping command runs, does it check the ping status 
> against www.myserver.com <http://www.myserver.com> even though I'm not 
> specifically specifying the host in the check_ping command?
>

The "check_ping" command in your service definition is *not* a reference 
to the "check_ping" plugin, it's a reference to the "check_ping" check 
command defined somewhere else in your config.  Normally that command 
will call a plugin (in this case, most likely check_ping) with some set 
of arguments, which in most cases include the address of the host on 
which the service was defined.
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