host ping

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Jasmine wrote:

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> Hi 
> 
> Just wondering if anyone can explain this to me. On the web interface, all my 
> hosts have "Assumed to be up" status, even when I had the host check_command 
> defined.
> 
> define host{
>         host_name               	host abc 
>         alias                   		host abc 
>         address                 		xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>         check_command             check-host-alive
>         max_check_attempts      	3
>         notification_interval   	0
>         notification_period     	24x7
>         notification_options    	d,u,r
>         }
> 
> Also, if I want to vary the arguments passed into check-host-alive. but, 
> apparently I failed to get Nagios to work with the configuration. 
> 
> define command{
>         command_name    check-thishost-alive
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$,$ARG2$ 
> - -c $ARG4$,$ARG5$ -p 5 -t 50
>         }
> 
> define host{
>         host_name               	host abc 
>         alias                   		host abc 
>         address                 		xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>         check_command             check-thishost-alive!20!2%!30!5%
>         max_check_attempts      	3
>         notification_interval   	0
>         notification_period     	24x7
>         notification_options    	d,u,r
>         }
> 
> Is there anything wrong in defining this? Because Nagios complains that 
> "check-thishost-alive" is not defined anywhere! 


hosts are only checked if a service fails.  if on startup all services are 
fine, then hosts may not be checked...

host check command in 1.0 does not accept arguments (like the service 
check commands)

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-sg



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