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Monitoring Host without ICMP
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 5:01 am
by yunushaikh
Hello Sir,
Is there any way if the icmp is disabled for the hosts and I can monitor it through nagios.
Please suggest if there are any solution to this problem.
Re: Monitoring Host without ICMP
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:15 am
by hsmith
yunushaikh wrote:Hello Sir,
Is there any way if the icmp is disabled for the hosts and I can monitor it through nagios.
Please suggest if there are any solution to this problem.
What are you trying to monitor on the hosts that have ICMP disabled?
Re: Monitoring Host without ICMP
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:19 am
by tmcdonald
If you just want to check if a host is up ICMP is the easiest choice, but if there are other services (like a webserver or SSH) running, you can just as easily check those instead. It may not be a true representation of the host's status, but it is better than nothing.
Re: Monitoring Host without ICMP
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:00 am
by Sundar
In our client's environment, ICMP can't be used in a Firewall. So, what is the best way to do ping monitor? Can a specific port be used to achieve this Ping monitor via Nagios? Please advise
Re: Monitoring Host without ICMP
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:50 am
by Box293
Ping isn't actually a port, it's a protocol of it's own so it's quite complicated to alter it.
If it's a windows host using NSClient++ (with NRPE) or a linux host with NRPE, you could do a NPRE version check:
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./check_nrpe -H win2008r2-01
I (0.4.3.131 2015-02-15) seem to be doing fine...