<p><strong>Service</strong><strong> - check command<br> </strong></p>
<p>This directive is used to specify the <em>short name</em> of the command that Nagios will run in order to check the status of the service. The maximum amount of time that the service check command can run is controlled by the service_check_timeout option.</p>
<p><em>Parameter name:</em> check_command<br> <em>Required:</em> yes</p>