Support forum for Nagios Core, Nagios Plugins, NCPA, NRPE, NSCA, NDOUtils and more. Engage with the community of users including those using the open source solutions.
which alerts when the IIS service W3SVC goes down.
However, in certain circumstances, IIS may be down for anything up to 30 minutes for a perfectly valid reason. How do I only alert when this period has passed?
I don't mind doing it via check_nrpe either, for which I have the following defined command:
Thanks for coming back to me - although we DO have scheduled downtime, there are ad-hoc times where IIS will have to be down too, so I guess I'll just have to tell our monitoring folk to apply a bit of common sense (oh dear!) around "IIS down" alerts.
This thread can now be closed.
Pete
neworderfac33 wrote: there are ad-hoc times where IIS will have to be down too
I certainly don't want to talk anyone out of using common sense, but...do these ad-hoc times come with any notice? You can schedule downtime immediately before actually going down.
You might also be interested in https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ncies.html . I don't know if there's anything you can use there, but it's at least worth thinking about if you can tie IIS to something else.