check_ping -- how to get -i <interval> option ?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Minkov, Ross wrote:
> Thanks Andreas. I'll try check_icmp.
> 
> 
>>Btw. I noticed you're a HP employee. Are you familiar with the HP 
>>Testdrive program? I'd like to get my hands on a HP-UX 11i running on 
>>PA-RISC 2 for NRPE development and testing. Would you be able to fix
> 
> that?
> 
> Main HP TestDrive web site is -- http://www.testdrive.hp.com/
> 
> To register for an account --
> http://www.testdrive.hp.com/accounts/register.shtml
> 
> I think we have PA RISC rp3410 server running HP-UX v2 available for
> test drive. The rp3410 has two PA-8800 800MHz cpus and 2GB of memory.  
> 

My bad. I meant PA-RISC 1.1. I'm already signed up for hp testdrive 
(excellent service!) and things seems to be working well on the 
available machines.

> 
> Regards,
> Ross
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andreas
> Ericsson
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:23 PM
> To: nagios_list
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_ping -- how to get -i <interval>
> option ?
> 
> Minkov, Ross wrote:
> 
>>>My workaround right now is to use "check_ping -t 10 -w 3000.0,80% -c
>>>5000.0,100% -p 1", and to specify "max_check_attempts  30" so that i
>>>know that a host is definitely down for at least 5 minutes before I
>>>get a HOST DOWN alert.
>>
>>
>>The way I solved similar problem ( I'm not saying this is the right
> 
> way
> 
>>;-) ) was to modify the check-host-alive command definition as
> 
> follows:
> 
>># '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 10
>>        }
>>
>>This kind of achieves the same... Instead of sending one ping and
>>waiting for 10 seconds for a response (-t 10) I send 10 pings... Not
>>sure which way is better...
>>
> 
> 
> check_icmp is better, since it won't take as long when the host is up 
> and will thus make your Nagios installation perform a whole lot better 
> when service checks fail.
> 
> 
>>Regards,
>>Ross
>>
> 
> 
> Btw. I noticed you're a HP employee. Are you familiar with the HP 
> Testdrive program? I'd like to get my hands on a HP-UX 11i running on 
> PA-RISC 2 for NRPE development and testing. Would you be able to fix
> that?
> 

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


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