false host down alerts

[Martin, Jeremy]

> How do you check, that the host is down. Please copy in your
> checkcommands.cfg the 
> # 'check-host-alive' command definition

Here is the command (excuse the wordwrap):

define command {
command_name	check-host-alive
command_line	$USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c
5000.0,100% -p 1
}


So the only difference between that and my check_ping definition is
check-host-alive is only doing one ping, check_ping is doing 5 pings.
Very strange because when it says HOST DOWN, the separate ping check
will be 0% packet loss, so I'd think "-p 1" would work fine. 

I can do this ok:
[jeremy at kgsinm05 etc]# /nagios/libexec/check_ping -H scrubber.gsi-kc.com
-w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 26.25 ms


Maybe there is a better command to use for my check-host-alive? 

Cheers
Jeremy



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