<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content=Word.Document name=ProgId> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Microsoft Word 9" name=Originator><LINK href="cid:filelist.xml@01C2B567.FCD45CF0" rel=File-List> <STYLE>@page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin: .5in; mso-footer-margin: .5in; mso-paper-source: 0; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } P.MsoAutoSig { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoAutoSig { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoAutoSig { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } SPAN.EmailStyle15 { COLOR: black; mso-style-type: personal-compose; mso-ansi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US style="tab-interval: .5in"> <DIV>That's all fine and dandy, but what do you have defined for the host definition? If you're using the default check-host-alive, and if that is still configured to use the default check_ping in checkcommands.cfg, that could be your problem.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You might want to set up a check-host-dummy to utilize the check_dummy plugin.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>(Of course, I could be completely off-base, since I've never set up passives, but... give it a try?)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Food for thought.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>jc</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----Original Message----- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:gwichman@zantaz.com] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:43 AM To: Nagios (E-mail) Subject: [Nagios-users] why is nagios pinging servers? </DIV> <DIV class=Section1> nagios 1781 0.0 0.1 1508 448 ? S 17:35 0:00 /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.1.82.35<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> I’m getting hosts showing as down still even after redeploying on RH73.. I think there’s something wrong in my config as my server should only be accepting passive results, not trying to ping IP’s that it can’t even talk to in the first place (all hosts are behind firewalls and monitored via distributed servers). What variable controls these active ping checks? My services.cfg ping doesn’t seem to be the culpret because even if I comment out the entire PING service, nagios still does it..<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> # Service definition<o:p></o:p> define service{<o:p></o:p> use generic-service ; Name of service template to use<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> host_name *<o:p></o:p> service_description PING<o:p></o:p> is_volatile 0<o:p></o:p> check_period 24x7<o:p></o:p> active_checks_enabled 0<o:p></o:p> passive_checks_enabled 1<o:p></o:p> check_freshness 1<o:p></o:p> freshness_threshold 600<o:p></o:p> max_check_attempts 3<o:p></o:p> normal_check_interval 10<o:p></o:p> retry_check_interval 5<o:p></o:p> contact_groups linux-admins<o:p></o:p> notification_interval 120<o:p></o:p> notification_period 24x7<o:p></o:p> notification_options c,r<o:p></o:p> check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%<o:p></o:p> }<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p> Gerald Wichmann<o:p></o:p> Senior Systems Development Engineer<o:p></o:p> Zantaz, Inc.<o:p></o:p> 925.598.3099 (w)<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p></DIV> This e-mail has been captured and archived by the ZANTAZ Digital Safe(tm) service. 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