check_ping thresholds

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On 5 Nov 2003, Michelle Murrain wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 19:01, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> > Can you post the check_ping command definition...
> 
> in /usr/share/netsaint/pluginconfig/check_ping.cfg I have:
> command[check_ping]=/usr/lib/netsaint/plugins/check_ping -H
> $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 10:20% -c 60:100%
> 
> So I think I understand what's going on here. The warning is set to 10
> rta, 20%, and the critical is set to 60 rta 100%. So I'm assuming:
> 1) this is the command that actually set the ping thresholds, not the
> arguements in the service config

In this case - yes

> 2) these are OR thresholds, not AND thresholds (makes sense).
> 
> Changing the nubbers in check_ping.cfg did the trick.
> 
> SO why are there arguments in the services.cfg definitions if they don't
> change how check_ping works? Am I missing something? I would like to
> have different ping thresholds for different hosts, since some are
> internal and some external. Would I just add new lines to the
> check_ping.cfg file?

Change the ping command definition to -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ instead of 
hardcoded values.  then you can supply individual thresholds for each 
service instance

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-sg



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