How-to DO NOT check_alive host?

[Christian Schneemann]

On Wednesday September 17 2008 03:13:09 pm Proskurin Kirill wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Im have some servers what don`t accept any icmp packets.
> Im check http port on it. But nagios by default does check_alive - and
> say what host is down.
>
> How can im evade this?
Hi,
you can define the check-host-alive in your templates, so if you have some 
hosts that don't accept icmp-packets you can change it to any checkcommand 
you want.

Have a look into the documentation at host definition 
(http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#host)

Greetings


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