Problem with false status

[lmcilwain]

I sent this to the group yesterday and no one responded, does this mean 
that no one knows how to help me solve this problem that is supposed to 
be so simple????


On Aug 19, 2004, at 2:50 PM, lmcilwain wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am new to installing nagios and I am having a common problem that I 
> can't seem to solve.
>
> Right now I have configured nagios to monitor a machine to check and 
> see if it is up or down using ping.  Nagios has noticed that the 
> particular machine was done when I did a reboot to test to see if the 
> notification was working.  That worked with no problems.  However...  
> Now that the machine is back up and running, nagios is still saying 
> that this machine is down.  If I look at the web interface it says 
> that its down and I am getting a page every 2 hours letting me know 
> that the machine is still down.  I can get the machine that it is 
> monitoring with no problems and even the machine that nagios is 
> running on can get to this machine.
>
> I checked the FAQ on nagios.org and it told me to "Make sure that the 
> host check command in your host definition is configured correctly."  
> Unfortunately I don't know which file they are talking about.  I 
> checked the hosts.cfg file and it seems to be fine (from what I can 
> tell).  Can anyone give me a better idea of what I am looking for and 
> how to solve this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
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