[Nagiosplug-help] check_ssh/check_tcp and icmp ping

[Johan Postma]

yap

that was the problem. I overlooked the check-host-alive command in the
server template that I used. I was just searching in the wrong
direction.

thanks and problem solved


On Nov 03, 2008 03:41 PM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <dermoth at aei.ca> wrote:

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>On 03/11/08 09:05 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>Johan Postma wrote:
>>>dear list
>>>
>>>I want to check the ssh connection to an external host, however I am
>>>not
>>>allowed/able to send icmp requests. If I use the check_ssh or
>>>check_tcp
>>>plugin, apparently a ping request is also sent, resulting in a nagios
>>>state "host down", is there a way to disable these icmp requests?
>>>
>>
>>They don't send ping requests. At least not the ICMP_ECHO kind. If
>>you're
>>watching the network traffic with a packet sniffer (such as
>>Wireshark),
>>you could well be seeing Nagios' attempts at running the previously
>>configured ping check (or some such). Whatever it is, neither
>>check_ssh
>>nor check_tcp have any knowledge if the ICMP protocol what so ever.
>
>I guess he's talking about the host check.
>
>Johan, have a look at the host definition...
>
>- --
>Thomas
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Johan P.M. Postma
Max Planck Institut of Biophysics
Max-von-Laue Str 3
60438 Frankfurt
Germany

http://www.mpibp-frankfurt.mpg.de/people/johan.postma/