[Possible Spam] - Re: host down but up problem

[Christopher Smith]

Okay, so I am having this problem with the Check_Icmp plugin.

If I run the check_icmp as the default nagios user account, I receive a
status information message in Nagios stating that 'Root access needed
(for raw sockets)' is necessary. Yet, as stipulated by another's post,
it runs as root, no problem. I have verified that the permissions (from
Linux) are set correctly.

This is 1.4.x of the plugins running on SuSE 9.1 and Nagios 1.2.
 
How does one get around this?




-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andreas
Ericsson
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:38 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Possible Spam] - Re: [Nagios-users] host down but up problem

Serveur-Faucon Surveillance wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been using Nagios for quite a while now over 2 years, so I am 
> pretty familiar with it.
> 
> One of my host recently went to a down state on the network status, 
> but is actually UP. This is not FAQ F0015 or F0016 related, since the 
> same command is used by all other hosts (and they are just fine).
> 
> I use the check_host_alive default command to check on hosts status 
> (yeah I know, I dont use the hip (new, cool) check_icmp from Andreas 
> Ericsson for now. Later)
> 

Don't know about hip and cool, but you're probably better off without
it. "Don't fix it if it ain't broken".

> So I went to my console to try a couple of things... ping myhost = ok!

> check_ping -H myhost etc etc = ok! (exactly like the
> check_host_alive)
> 
> So... my next theory would be to erase everything from that host in 
> the history, and start over. But before that, is there someone who 
> actually had something like that?
> 
> There was the bug witch two nagios process could run at the same time,

> but that's not it. Thanks!
> 

This can happen properly when the host starts flapping while down and
comes out OK on the other end of the flapping. Assuming you aren't
running 2.0 with f among your notification_options, ofcourse.

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


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