FTP Server is shown alive, but Nagios says DOWN!

[IT Toonz]

Its a linux Server.

We used check_ftp and it returns up, this value was used to show FTP server
as up, instead of ping, but still showing as DOWN!!

Is there any other way to show FTP server as UP from some other values
status?




-----Original Message-----
From: C. Bensend [mailto:benny at bennyvision.com] 
Sent: 28 September 2010 15:47
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] FTP Server is shown alive, but Nagios says DOWN!


The check_command in the *host* definition, not the service definition.

Is this a Windows 2008 FTP server?  If so, Win2008 disables pings out
of the box, and a custom rule must be added to the Windows Firewall
to allow ICMP ECHOREQ.

Or use a check_command that would indeed show the correct status of
the host.  Do *not* blindly disable the Windows Firewall to "fix"
this, if this is what's going on.

Benny


> Check_command is set to check_ftp and that is shown as UP, can't figure
> out
> why Nagios is showing ftp server as DOWN!!
>
> Please see the configuration file below.
>
> # Define a service to check host alive  the remote machine
>
>  define service{
>           use                             local-service         ; Name of
> service template to use
>           host_name                       ftpsrv
>           service_description             Check FTP Service
>           check_command                   check_ftp!
>           }
>
> To which service check can we change to, so that Nagios doesn't show an UP
> server as DOWN.
>
> Regards
> Anth.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Dewell [mailto:pete at stuff-done.co.uk]
> Sent: 28 September 2010 14:49
> To: Nagios Users List
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] FTP Server is shown alive, but Nagios says
> DOWN!
>
> The host up/down status will be defined by the check_command in the host
> definition.
>
> What is this set to ? I would guess that it's been set to check
> something that the host doesn't repond to.
>
> P
>
> On 28/09/2010 09:16, Bram Gillemon wrote:
>> Does the server reply to ping checks?
>>
>> As far as i know the server show "up" if the server reply's to pings.
>>
>> Kr,
>> Bram Gillemon
>>
>> On 28 Sep 2010, at 08:30, IT Toonz wrote:
>>
>>> 2 queries....
>>>
>>> Please see the two reports!! How can we rectify this error? FTP server
>>> is
> not down, please see the times of checking..
>>>
>>> What is telling Nagios, FTP srv is down? Please advice.
>>>
>>> <image001.jpg><image002.jpg>
>>>
>>> # Define a service to check host alive  the remote machine
>>>
>>> define service{
>>>          use                             local-service         ; Name
>>> of
> service template to use
>>>          host_name                       ftpsrv
>>>          service_description             Check FTP Service
>>>          check_command                   check_ftp!
>>>          }
>>>
>>> Please see the below config, we want to see the free disk space in home
> directory. But seems it's not working
>>>
>>>
>>> # Define a service to check the disk space of the home partition
>>>
>>> define service{
>>>          use                             local-service         ; Name
>>> of
> service template to use
>>>          host_name                       ftpsrv
>>>          service_description             Home Partition
>>>          check_command                   check_local_disk!20%!10%!/home
>>>          }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We are using FAN 2.0 NagiosR 3.0.6
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards
>>> Anth.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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