Simple Host Monitoring - ICMP

[Sean Keplinger]

I have Nagios running on Linux monitoring around 500 hosts on our network. 
For most of those hosts, we only need to know if they respond to a ping. 
Since I've read that enabling "active host checks" may cause performance 
problems, I made an "ICMP" service and assigned each server to it.

This works great save for one problem: If a host fails to respond to the 
ICMP service check, it instantly jumps to the host check (which is also a 
ping) and times out after 1 1/2 minutes (or 10 host check pings with 10 
second timeouts).

What I need is for it to behave like a standard service check, that is to 
obey by the rules of the retry_interval. Is this possible?


Thanks,
Sean
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Sean Keplinger
LAN/Windows/Unix Analyst - Western & Southern Financial Group

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