newbie help with status information

[Onsite DeTeWe]

Hi all,

I am very new to Nagios, but figure I know my way around it as it has 
taken me nearly a week to get it working (of sorts).

I have a problem with the fact that all my hosts say that they are down 
and the service for the host (ping) says status unknown.  In the status 
information column it says '/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.234.4.21' for the host 
and '/bin/ping -n -U -c 5 10.234.4.21' for the service.

This I am guessing is correct as the host check does a 1 count ping and 
the service takes 5 and determins if the thing is up or not?!?!

The host is deinately there and if I run the said commands in the command 
line it returns OK.

Running Nagios 1.1 on Mandrake 9.1,  The host is on the same network vlan 
as the server as I thought it would be better to begin at the beginning.

Can anyone help please.

Regards

Jason

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