FTP Server is shown alive, but Nagios says DOWN!

[Pete Dewell]

The host up/down status will be defined by the check_command in the host 
definition.

What is this set to ? I would guess that it's been set to check 
something that the host doesn't repond to.

P

On 28/09/2010 09:16, Bram Gillemon wrote:
> Does the server reply to ping checks?
>
> As far as i know the server show "up" if the server reply's to pings.
>
> Kr,
> Bram Gillemon
>
> On 28 Sep 2010, at 08:30, IT Toonz wrote:
>
>> 2 queries....
>>
>> Please see the two reports!! How can we rectify this error? FTP server is not down, please see the times of checking..
>>
>> What is telling Nagios, FTP srv is down? Please advice.
>>
>> <image001.jpg><image002.jpg>
>>
>> # Define a service to check host alive  the remote machine
>>
>> define service{
>>          use                             local-service         ; Name of service template to use
>>          host_name                       ftpsrv
>>          service_description             Check FTP Service
>>          check_command                   check_ftp!
>>          }
>>
>> Please see the below config, we want to see the free disk space in home directory. But seems it’s not working
>>
>>
>> # Define a service to check the disk space of the home partition
>>
>> define service{
>>          use                             local-service         ; Name of service template to use
>>          host_name                       ftpsrv
>>          service_description             Home Partition
>>          check_command                   check_local_disk!20%!10%!/home
>>          }
>>
>>
>>
>> We are using FAN 2.0 Nagios® 3.0.6
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> Anth.
>>
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