simple config - check_ping ignores parameters?

[Jim Cheetham]

Hi, I've just installed nagios from Debian packages (nagios-text
1.1-9.backports.org.1), and given it what I hoped was a simple config to
get used to the program ...

I've put in a number of hosts that should use check-host-alive, which I
believe is a very generous ping test (5000ms?)

I've also added a ping service for these hosts, and they are generally
responding as OK.

However, a set of them are over 100ms away from me, (between 150 and 250
ms) and generated critical errors (I was expecting warning messages?).

I edited services.cfg to give these services a new threshold
(check_command check_ping!300.0,20%!800.0,60%) and restarted (both with
the same service_description, and with a different one, in case that
helped), but these changes do not seem to have come into action, I'm
still seeing a critical service error.

So, where do I need to look to get the behaviour I'm expecting?
i.e.
	Warnings, not criticals
	More appropriate thresholds for these services

-jim

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