BUG : Host status DOWN / Services OK

[ziedmahjoub]

Hi,
I'm monitoring about 8 machines in our IT company and i think i got a bug in nagios , since it displayed me some hosts with Status Down meanwhile their Services are OK
only the service W3SVC is CRITICAL

i have 2 questions :
1- Is this a bug ?
2- how can i solve the W3SVC service CRITICAL ?

thanks

[tmcdonald]

It is entirely possible for a host to be shown as down while the services are up. It all depends on what check you have configured for each. If the host is using a check_ping but the host blocks pings, it will appear down but all the services work just fine.

[ziedmahjoub]

Yes tmcdonald , you was right , the firewall was blocking my ping , i disable it and the status went UP .
But i wanna know :

It all depends on what check you have configured for each

in which file i can configure this ?

thanks a lot dude

[scottwilkerson]

It would be in your configuration files with the check_command for the host or service object.

Then the commands themselves are usually in the commands.cfg

[ziedmahjoub]

ok i will see what i can do thanks !! this thread can be closed , thanks all