1.3: Cannot ping a host, so how do I tell if i t is "up"?

[Tedman Eng]

Keep in mind that you can't pass arguments to a hostcheck command.
(see Marcos page in docs)
What I do is create a few alternative hostcheck commands using check_tcp.

check-host-alive-22
check-host-alive-80



> -----Original Message-----
> From: fire-eyes [mailto:sgtphou at fire-eyes.org]
> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 12:20 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] 1.3: Cannot ping a host, so how do I 
> tell if it
> is "up"?
> 
> 
> I'm using 1.3.
> 
> When I define a host, the only command defined which I see I 
> can use is
> check-host-alive. This uses ping to determine if it is "UP". 
> What could
> I do to determine if it is up, if I can't ping it, since the 
> host drops
> those?
> 
> I figure I could fall back to a tcp port, however I tried
> check_tcp!someport but nagios doesn't like the "!someport" in 
> hosts.cfg.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
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