Problem on check_ping

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Bombadur,

> I think (hope) that until this moment cofiguration went good, but I have 
> a problem testing for the check_ping plugin, which maybe it's the most 
> important for their needings:
> 
> # /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping -H 192.168.1.25 -w 3000.0,80% -c 
> 5000.0,100% -p 1
> /bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 1 192.168.1.25
> CRITICAL - Could not interpret output from ping command

You could try the check_icmp plugin. It's supposed to be more reliable.
You will probably need to make it suid root (chmod u+s check_icmp)
before it will work, though.

Cheers, Chris.
-- 
(aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer (chris at aidworld.org)



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