check_fping strangeness

[Terry Simons]

Is it possible that the fping plugin is just returning incorrect 
information to Nagios?

That's what it seems like, but it's hard to say.

You might want to look at the source for the plugin, and see if you can 
figure out what it's doing.

- Terry

On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 10:58 PM, Myke Place wrote:

>
> 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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