check host alive by passive

[Syd Alsobrook]

On Thursday 23 August 2007 02:45, D.Parise at iaea.org wrote:
> Not really: the point is that I want the host to be down when a certain
> service is down and the service is passive. I am monitoring some systems
> connected in dial up, that why I can't use active or ping.

You might consider distributed monitoring. Run a small nagios install on the 
other side of the dial-up link. Have it initiate a dial back every hour or 
so. Have you master server throw an alert if the passive checks are over 1.5 
hours old.

Syd

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