Alternative to Ping

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Corey Mosher
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:51 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Alternative to Ping
> 
> If my hardware and software firewalls block ping requests, what do you
> guys suggest as an alternative to ping to determine that a server is
up
> and running?  I intend to eventually setup check_by_ssh checks for
each
> server for various things like hard disk space, etc but I was
wondering if
> there was something else that might be good for just checking that a
> system is up and running.

check_tcp to an arbitrary port that your machine is listening on and is
allowed through your firewalls would be a good start. It won't be as
comprehensive as a ping check because that service can fail and the box
still be up but when your basic testing is limited you have to move
higher up the stack.

--
Marc

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