why the Ping service is still being checked?
carole verdon
verdon at cict.fr
Tue Jul 13 10:28:56 CEST 2004
Is the definition of template 'some-host-tmpl' not contain a check_command like check_host_alive?
If it's the case, you can look your command.cfg file and verify if a command using ping isn't definied.
Ling Zhang wrote:
>Nope. I did not define a universal ping service and the grep didn't
>return with any surprises.
>
>Ling
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Rodriguez [mailto:nagios-users at gurugeek.com]
>Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 3:56 PM
>To: Ling Zhang
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] why the Ping service is still being checked?
>
>A ping /service/ does not exist by default. I'm guessing you created one
>
>with a host_name of * which will ping everything.
>
>grep -i ping services.cfg
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>Any output?
>
>Jeff
>
>Ling Zhang wrote:
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>>No "ping" service was defined for that server. I am very sure about
>>that. It almost looks like the Ping service is checked by default,
>>unless I turned it off some where.
>>
>>Ling
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jeff Rodriguez [mailto:nagios-users at gurugeek.com]
>>Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:43 PM
>>To: Ling Zhang
>>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] why the Ping service is still being
>>
>>
>checked?
>
>
>>You've probably created a "ping" service. Search your services.cfg for
>>
>>
>a
>
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>>service
>>named "ping"
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>Ling Zhang wrote:
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>>
>>>Hi, there,
>>>
>>>I have configured Nagios to monitor the HTTP service on a server that
>>>does not respond to Pings. To avoid letting nagios assuming the server
>>>host is down, I specified nagios to check host status with a
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>check-dummy
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>>
>>
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>>>command, which will always return with an "UP" status. However,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>although
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>>
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>>>never defined anywhere in my configuration files, nagios kept checking
>>>the "PING" service on that server and reported "ping service" down,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>even
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>>
>>
>>>the host status is "UP" and the HTTP service on that server is "OK".
>>>
>>>Here is the host definition and service definition of that specific
>>>server:
>>>
>>>################ host definition######################
>>>
>>>define host {
>>> use some-host-tmpl
>>> host_name server.abcd.com
>>> alias server.abcd.com
>>> address 1.2.3.4
>>> check_command check-dummy ;always return
>>>"up"
>>> parents parent.abcd.com
>>>}
>>>
>>>################ service Definition ##################
>>>
>>>define service {
>>> use default-service
>>> host_name server.abcd.com
>>> service_description HTTP
>>> check_command check_HTTP
>>>}
>>>
>>>So, any idea why is that?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Ling
>>>
>>>
>>>
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