Unreachable Hosts

[Jim Avery]

On 18/08/07, song loesprite <loesprite at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.I have some unreachable hosts when using ping command.
> When nagios checks one of their status with the check-host-alive
> command（actually it is Ping command）, it returns a critical status. But the
> service provided by that host may be working just fine.I tried to remove the
> "check-host-alive" command from the "command_line" in the "hosts.cfg" file.
> But failed.And then I tried removing the whole line of the "command_line",
> but turned out to be nothing deferent.
>
> So how can I remove the check-host-alive command from those hosts?
>
> Thanks
> -Vishnu

You don't have to use ping for your check-host-alive command.  If ping
won't work for those hosts, use a command for them which does work
okay.  All the command has to do is confirm the host is alive somehow.

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