simple config - check_ping ignores parameters?

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Fri Feb 13 19:40:17 CET 2004


On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Jim Cheetham wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

posting snippets of config would help debug...

-- 

-sg



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