Host State for machines that don't allow ping

[Hari Sekhon]

Daniel McLaughlin wrote:
> In my nagios setup I have a similar problem, how I get around this is 
> (in the case of a webserver) is that I use a check_http for the 
> check_host command, therefore if HTTP is available, I am assuming that 
> the server is up!
yes this is what I have done as well, replacing the host check command 
with the service check. It works but it's not generic and doesn't scale 
or cannot be easily grouped or templated.

The only other thing I can think of is to use a dummy check for the 
host  check command, but that could give false information so I've 
resisted doing it.


If anyone has any better ideas, I'd love to hear them.

-h

Hari Sekhon

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