*****SPAM***** Device is down but it isn't

[Eric F Crist]

On Jan 11, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Michael Egan wrote:

> I am monitoring a Windows 2003 virtual machine.  Nagios says the  
> server is down but when I click on the device all the monitors  
> (ping, disk space, load, etc) say OK.
>
> Why does Nagios think the server is down?

Mike,

IIRC, Windows XP SP2 and newer block pings by default.  This being the  
case, nagios' host check command (a ping by default) is going to think  
the system is down.  Either pick a different host check command for  
your Windows boxen, or enable the receipt of pings through the built- 
in firewall.

HTH
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks



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