Hi, Yes you can. If you have an other server running on it, example of http server you can use the check_http command, and I think you should remove the check_host_alive from the host config. If your switch does not host any other services, take a look on the check_fping command it may work :)
Riahi Taieb On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 22:11 +0100, Michael Johnston wrote: > Hi list > > I swear I've seen a way to do this this before but I just can't remember > where and I can't seem to find it. Isn't there a way to check to see if a > host is up without having to ping it? I have a switch that we don't allow > ICMP return but I'd still like to have nagios tell me if it's up. Thanks! > > -(mijohnst) > > ----------------------- > The mailing list archive is found here: > http://www.nagiosexchange.org/nagios-users.34.0.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null