Advice on host notifications
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Mon Sep 6 09:33:49 CEST 2004
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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