check_fping strangeness

[Myke Place]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, terry wrote:

> Ah!
>
> Sorry, I should have read more carefully.

No problem, it took me a while to catch it myself.

> What does your check_fping definition look like?

# 'check_fping' command definition
define command{
        command_name check_fping
        command_line $USER1$/check_fping $HOSTADDRESS$
        }


> Does fping correctly report for up hosts?

It shows OK for both hosts that are up as well as those that are down.

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

I'm using the latest release of Nagios 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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