.TH NAGIOS-FORCE-CHECK 1 "Nagios Force Check" "Nagscripts" .SH NAME .B nfc, nagios-force-check \- Pleasant way to force a check for a Nagios host or service .SH USAGE .B nagios-force-check -h .br .B nagios-force-check .I HOSTNAME[/SERVICE] .SH SYNOPSIS .B nfc webhost .br .B nfc webhost/HTTP .B .br .B nul | while read -r object ; do .br nfc "$object" .br done .SH DESCRIPTION .B nagios-force-check will format and attempt to write a Nagios command to the Nagios commands file which it expects to find at /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd to force a check of a particular host (and all its services) or just one particular service. .SH SEE ALSO nagios-acknowledge(1), nagios-downtime(1) .SH AUTHOR Tom Ryder .PP