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I seem to recall some time back that I was able to substitute an SNMP check of some type for a PING check. I think it perfumed a poll of some SNMP value, which made the host check pass. I can't seem to get that to work now.

Is there a good alternative to check a device that doesn't respond to ping? I can poll individual status of the device, and have green indicators. It's just the host check and ping check that are failing.

You should be able to use any valid check command on a host or service, in place of the standard ping. I would suggest check_tcp\udp to check an alternative port to icmp, a basic check_snmp to verify hostname or os version, etc.

What kind of host is it? In many cases you can change the "check-host-alive" to "check-host-alive-http". See our documentation on the topic here:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... _In_XI.pdf