R: R: services check stale

[Andreas Ericsson]

Marco Borsani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I made a simple test.
> I put same configs file on two different servers nagios is running at (I
> will call them "Server A" and "Server B".
> I shutdown a monitored host (that has also some services monitored on it) to
> see which kind of messages I'd receive.
> On Server A I received 10 "HOST ALERT - DOWN - PING CRITICAL - Packet loss =
> 100%"
> On Server B I received 10 "HOST ALERT - DOWN - CRITICAL - Plugin timed out
> after 10 seconds"
> 
> WHY ? Any idea?
> 

Your PING binaries aren't the same on both systems, or your plugin 
versions differ slightly. If you want the output to be exactly the same 
on both systems you can try the check_icmp plugin instead.

> Both servers use following command on HOST CHECK:
> # 'check-host-alive' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check-host-alive
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c
> 5000.0,100% -p 5 -t 30
>         }
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Marco
> 
> 

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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