Advice on host notifications

[Andreas Ericsson]

Marc Powell wrote:
>>>I have a situation here where, for the moment, I am unable to
>>>do host checks on several hosts which are located at an
>>>outsourced facility.  I have no access to ping, trace, udp,
>>>etc.  The only thing I can really do is to check_http (which
>>>I can do successfully).  We're working on some firewall rule
>>>changes to allow for NSClient and NRPE, but they may take a little
>>>while.
>>>
>>>What I want to do is continue to monitor the services I can
>>>(limited, I know), but bypass the host issues.  What would be
>>>the most appropriate approach here?
>>
>>Make the host check use the check_http plugin instead of check_ping.
> 
> 
> Or, if you don't like the redundancy, you can always just not specify a
> host check command at all.
> 

No. The check_command is not optional for host objects.

> --
> Marc
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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