check_fping strangeness

[terry]

Ah!

Sorry, I should have read more carefully.

What does your check_fping definition look like?

Does fping correctly report for up hosts?

Also, where did you get the plugin from?  (Is it a Nagios plugin, or 
the old netsaint plugins)?

- Terry

On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 10:04  PM, Myke Place wrote:

> Terry,
>
> The problem is that the output of the plugins reports the host as 
> being in
> an 'OK' state which of course a host would not be were it down.
>
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, terry wrote:
>
>> Yeah,
>>
>> Your problem isn't with Nagios. :)
>>
>> The plugin is working exactly as it should.
>>
>> It's reporting what fping is telling it.
>>
>> fping thinks your host is unreachable.
>>
>> - Terry
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 08:51  AM, Myke Place wrote:
>>
>>> Yes it does. Here is the output of fping:
>>>
>>> fping deadhost
>>> deadhost is unreachable
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>> Does fping work on the commandline?
>>>>
>>>> - Terry
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 01:36  PM, Myke Place wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm having a bit of trouble getting check_fping to report the status
>>>> of a
>>>> host correctly to Nagios. The problem that exists as follows when
>>>> using
>>>> check_fping to contact a host that I know is unreachable.
>>>>
>>>> ./check_fping deadhost
>>>> FPING OK - deadhost (loss=100.000000%, rta=0.000000 ms)
>>>
>>>> fping: Version 2.4b2_to $Date: 2002/01/16 00:33:42 $
>>>> fping: comments to david at remote.net
>>>>
>>>> Is there something I'm missing here? Does check_fping need some
>>>> special
>>>> arguments to work properly in checkcommands.cfg?
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>
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