check_ping unknown

[Schmitz, Carsten]

Hi,

Please post your checkcommands.cfg entry on check_ping, too.

Are you using /bin/ping from checkcommands.cfg instead of the check_ping or check_icmp plugins? If yes, any specific reason?

I dunno, could be that the combination of -w 10 and -c 5 makes Nagios think there's a timeout before your ping command finishes? Did you try lower values? When you say the command works on the shell, did you do that as the same user that Nagios runs as?

Cheers
Carsten

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Ovig
Degrouard
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:11 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] check_ping unknown


Hello,


I have this message in service detail.
Connectivity : UNKNOWN 01-18-2005 09:54:16 0d 20h 41m 39s 1/3 /bin/ping 
-n -U -w 10 -c 5 138.122.22.222


This is my file services.cfg
define service {
    use                                    generic-service
    hostgroup_name                localhost-servers
    service_description            Connectivity
    is_volatile                            0
    check_period                       24x7
    max_check_attempts           3
    normal_check_interval        5
    retry_check_interval            1
    contact_groups                    localhost-admins
    notification_interval            120
    notification_period            24x7
    notification_options            c,r
    check_command                check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
}

I don't understand because the command /bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 5 
138.122.22.222 works but Nagios shows an unknown status.


Thank you,
O. Degrouard



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