Host DOWN alerts not passing pluging output

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Monday, June 28, 2004 2:56 PM -0400 Alex Burger <alex at fragit.net> 
wrote:

> It looks like check_ping is expecting the 'From 10.36.39.219 icmp_seq=1
> Destination Host Unreachable' message to be sent to STDERR from ping, but
> on my system it goes to STDOUT.
>
> To test, I created a script that outputs to STDERR a ping result, and
> changed check_ping to call my script instead:
>
># !/usr/bin/perl
> select STDERR;
> print "From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable\n";
> print "\n";
> print "--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---\n";
> print "echo 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet
> loss, time 0ms\n";
>
> Calling check_ping, I get:
>
> PING CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
>
> If I changed the script by removing 'select STDERR', I get:
>
> Error: Could not interpret output from ping command

Have you filed a bug in the Nagios bug tracker (although be aware you may 
not hear anything on bugs filed there for many months)?

--Quanah

--
Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html


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