check_ping service question

[Ilan Berkner]

got it, thanks

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Morris, Patrick <patrick.morris at hp.com>wrote:

>  On 10/7/2010 2:41 PM, Ilan Berkner wrote:
>
> newbie question...
>
>  I have a service defined in my services.cfg file that looks like this:
>
>  define service {
> use generic-service
> host_name myserver
> service_description PING
> check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
> }
>
>  in my hosts file have "myserver" defined with an address tag:
> www.myserver.com
>
>  when the check_ping command runs, does it check the ping status against
> www.myserver.com even though I'm not specifically specifying the host in
> the check_ping command?
>
>
> The "check_ping" command in your service definition is *not* a reference to
> the "check_ping" plugin, it's a reference to the "check_ping" check command
> defined somewhere else in your config.  Normally that command will call a
> plugin (in this case, most likely check_ping) with some set of arguments,
> which in most cases include the address of the host on which the service was
> defined.
>
>
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