Problems creating service to monitor ftp service

[Andrew Cruse]

nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> I've installed Nagios 2.0b3 on a Suse Enterprise 9 (SLES9)
> server system and am trying to configure it to monitor the
> ftp service on an ftp server located on the LAN.
> 
> I'm using the 'check_ftp' plugin to monitor the service:
> 
>     check_ftp -H ftp.example.com -j
> 
> but any problems with the ftp server on the SLES9 system are
> being reported as "HOST down" messages instead of "Service down"
> messages. I'm receiving email similar
> to the following:

You have the host check command set to be the same command as the
service check command.  Ergo, whenever that service check fails, the
host check will fail as well and you will receive a report of the host
being down.

Andrew



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