Hi, 23.07.2007 08:42,, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:: > Hi, all! > > We are monitoring an external FTP server that is not in our > control but that we depend on for a certain part of our business. > > After the FTP service failed for a short period of time on > Saturday, the host was flagged "down" and has not come up > since. I just found out that the other admin blocks ICMP. > The FTP server works fine, though. I wonder if they have > "misterious" problems with customers that have an MTU > slightly less than 1500 somewhere in their path ;-)) > > Is there a way to tell Nagios not to bother checking > if a host is alive with ICMP echo and just continue checking > the service instead?
Sure... either simply remove the host check from the hosts definition, or - what I would do - use the ftp check as a host check also. Arno > > Thanks a lot, > Patrick -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ 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