Ping Service Not Working on Nagios 1.2 / FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE

[Marc Powell]

On Monday, April 05, 2004 3:07 PM, granny at rakis.net shared with us:

> Hello,
> 
> I've checked the archives and I haven't been able to find anything
> about this problem. 
> 
> I'm trying to run Nagios 1.2 on a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE box.  The
> main problem is that Nagios says that it's not able to ping anything,
> especially the box that is running Nagios itself.  :)  

What does it report?

> 
> I tried to see if check_ping wasn't working, but it seems to be OK:
> 
> bash-2.05b$ ./check_ping -t 300 -H 172.18.3.138 -w 100,20% -c
> 500,100% PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.08 ms bash-2.05b$ 
> 
> bash-2.05b$ ./check_ping -t 300 -H 172.18.3.138 -w 100,20% -c 500,60%
> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.09 ms bash-2.05b$ 

Were these tests done as root or as the nagios user?

--
Marc 


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