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Hm. I tried setting the port explicitly (which I think I'd done before, but no harm in trying again) with no luck. For no reason in particular, I tried using -I [ip address] rather than -H [hostname], and now it works exactly as expected. Hostname resolution looks to be working fine (that is, I can ...

That's odd; I do have a contact assigned to the service explicitly. So, that overrode the contact_group of the host when you set it on the service? That doesn't look to be happening for me. Though it sounds like I can set a contact_group of null in the service check to explicitly override the host c...

I recently set up a few passive checks using NSCA. No problems there -- I'm not doing anything high-concept, so the myriad tutorials for how to set it up were entirely sufficient. That said, the passive service checks are, right now, configured to only go to me, since I wanted to give them a bit of ...

Sure thing: [root@scan plugins]# ./check_http -v --ssl -t 20 -w 10 -c 15 -H vpn.mydomain.edu GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: check_http/v2.0.3 (nagios-plugins 2.0.3) Connection: close Host: vpn.mydomain.edu Accept: */* CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 20 seconds [root@scan plugins]# And, for the curl (not...

I'm trying to set up a basic "check_http --ssl" check on a server with an unverifiable cert chain, and the check times out every time. I can successfully use "check_http --ssl" from this monitoring host to check other web servers, and also can use wget to pull down the first serv...