Disable Ping checks on Host

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Disable Ping checks on Host

Post by mindspring »

Hi There,

I have a few hosts where ICMP and ping is not allowed so the checks on the host always shows down, yet the services are up.

Is there any way to disable the host ping check or tell it that the host is up, even though pings are blocked?

See example attached

Thanks.
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Re: Disable Ping checks on Host

Post by lmiltchev »

You can always change the ping command to something else, that makes sense in your environment - checking a port that is open, check_dummy, etc. Please review our documentation on changing the host alive check here:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... _In_XI.pdf
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Re: Disable Ping checks on Host

Post by mindspring »

Many thanks, this worked like a charm!
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Re: Disable Ping checks on Host

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mindspring wrote:Many thanks, this worked like a charm!
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