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Disable host check/ping in nagios

problem I want to validate services of a host, though the host is not pingable (e.g. public www server)

solution For the host definition make sure no 'check_command check-host-alive' line is there (including lines inherited from templates). For nagios 3.2 / gentoo I changed my template for the host to 'generic-host' and added 'max_check_attempts 10' and 'contact_groups admins'.

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2 Responses to “Disable host check/ping in nagios”

  1. Ozzy says:
    July 22, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    Hello,

    I did what you suggested and restarted the nagios. It worked well. Thank you for the suggestion.

    It is good that I am not receiving for “host down” status but the hosts are still in red at the nagios web interface and they “seem” down. All my service checks are green and working well.

    Do you know if it is possible to change the red background colors to normal one, gray?

    Thank you so much.

    /Ozzy

  2. Lawrence Kesteloot says:
    March 23, 2011 at 11:10 pm

    Thanks for writing that, it just solved my problem!

    By the way, instead of deleting the check_command line, you probably want to override it with another in the host itself, such as with check_http.

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