Critical Could not interpret output from ping command

Arno Lehmann al at its-lehmann.de
Tue Jul 12 19:34:59 CEST 2005


Hello,

Kindy Sylla wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am having error while using the check_ping plugin on
> Linux Suse 9.1.( I diddn't have this problème with
> Mandrake 10.1).
> I installed the nagios 1.2 along with the plugins 1.4.
> 
> As nagios user when I try the following command :
> ./check_ping -v -H 102.11.17.5  -w 100.0,20% -c
> 500.0,60% -p 5
> I got the following  
> /bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 5 102.11.17.5 ==> /bin/ping
> -n -U -w 10 -c 5 102.11.17.5
> Critical - Could not interpret output from ping
> command.

I suggest to use check_icmp instead of check_ping.
check_ping uses the system's ping, and that output is not standardized. 
And, of course, if has to start another process - both issues are, to my 
knowledge, not existing in check_icmp. Which is more flexible anyway, in 
my opinion.

Arno

> While the /bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 5 102.11.17.5 works
> fine. 
> I believe it is  something related to the OS version
> and the plugin( since it works fine on Madrake) 
> Any idea to solve this? 
> By the way, I also tried to use the check_icmp plugin,
> as nagios user, the operation is not permitted!!!!
> While as a root I can get the response.
> Thanks in advance,
> Kindy Sylla
> 
> 
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