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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hello,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Here is host
and service definition to monitor a website. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">define
host{</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>         </span>use<span>                    </span><span>  </span>windows-server</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>         </span>host_name<span>        </span><span>   </span>illinoistollway</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>         </span>alias<span>                  </span><span>  </span>illinoistollway</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>         </span>address<span>                </span><a href="http://www.illinoistollway.com/" target="_blank">www.illinoistollway.com</a></span></p>



<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>        </span><span> </span>contact_groups<span>      </span>admins</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>         </span>}</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">define
service {</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>        </span>use<span>                         </span><span>          </span>local-service</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>        </span>host_name<span>                       </span><span> </span>IllionisHighway</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>        </span>service_description<span>             </span><span>            </span>HTTP</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>        </span>check_command<span>                  </span>check_http</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span>        </span>}</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">But I am
getting an error that host is down and service is not monitored as well. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Could you
please guide me how to resolve this issue?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Shashank</span></p>

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