check-host-alive check

[Kevin Keane]

Look in the configuration files instead - probably in commands.cfg. 
Nagios doesn't just use the plugins, but rather looks up the check in 
the configuration file, and the configuration file then tells it which 
plugin to actually run.

mariog at absi.be wrote:
>
> Hello all
> can anyone help me with this;
> there a few hosts mostly adsl or sdsl routers dat have critical state 
> with plugin timed out.
>
> the critical error is :
> check-host-alive critical plugin timed out after 10 seconds.
>
> i cannot find in nagios plugins directory any check named 
> check-host-alive, it seems to be an embedded nagios check when the 
> host is defined? despite this the host is up.
>
> can someone help me how does it work and where is this 
> check-host-alive check stored in a regular nagios install under 
> solaris 10.
>
> thank you very much for your help
>
> Mario Garcia Ortiz/ABSI


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