Help on alert ping

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jack A. Kanimea wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone tried the alert in nagios to only alert as down only if the
> sites is down for say 15min and then alert as down as well as when it up
> for 15min sure than alert.
> 
> At the moment when get alerts as soon it is down although I can still
> pinging. But some of our remote sites have long timeout period and only
> show ping out for a period of time which doesn't mean it down. Any helkp
> is greated appreciated.
> 
> I currently using check_icmp. in /usr/local/nagios/etc/checkcommads.cfg
> 

Try downloading the new check_icmp and running it in host-check mode.

Do the following;
download http://devel.op5.se/oss/check_icmp-1.0.tar.gz
unpack and build (tar xvzf ....; make)
install -s -m 4755 check_icmp /usr/local/libexec/check_icmp
cd /usr/local/libexec/check_icmp
chmod 4755 check_icmp
ln -s check_icmp check_host

Then edit your misccommands.cfg to point to the check_host symlink 
instead. This will cause check_icmp to run in host-check mode and return 
OK upon any received packet, no matter the RTA or packet loss.

> 
> # 'check-host-alive' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check-host-alive
>         command_line  /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp -H
> $HOSTADDRESS$
>                }
> 
> thanks in advance,
> Jack K
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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