check_ping works fine from command line but cgi shows ping resultsas "unknown"

[Larry Naves]

My services are defined as: check_ping! 3000.0,80% ! 5000.0,100%
Does the spaces                        ^      or  ^ ^ here matter? They work
fine for our UP hosts. 
My command is: $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p 5
(the same as your)
I checked and the /bin/ping on my cent-os-4 system shows:
     /bin/ping -n                      -U           -c 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is
OK
numeric output ^^ user to user latency ^^ and count ^^

Larry Wayne Naves, Jr. "Jay"
Systems Analyst
Computer Sciences Corporation /
Alabama Supercomputer Authority 
-----Original Message-----
From: Davy Gaussen [mailto:nagiosadmin at snef.fr] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:35 AM
To: lnaves at asc.edu; Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] RE: RE: check_ping works fine from command line
but cgi shows ping resultsas "unknown"

What are your arguments ? Here are mine :

check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%

and the command is :
$USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p 5

However, I think that your /bin/ping command (in your system) have a
different response when a host is unreachable than the check_ping expected.

(sorry for the english)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Naves" <lnaves at asc.edu>
To: <Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:23 PM
Subject: [Nagios-users] RE: RE: check_ping works fine from command line but
cgi shows ping resultsas "unknown"


> I am still having this problem after replacing check_ping (1.2) with
(1.3).
> My problem is a little different though check_ping works great when 
> the
host
> is reachable, if the host is unreachable (literally not because of a 
> down
> parent) the check returns /bin/ping -n -U -c 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and the 
> status is UNKNOWN. Why does the plugin not just return host-down or 
> unreachable, etc. Should I try a different check_ping?
>
> >Great!!!
> > Thanks Davy!
> > I unpacked and compiled the nagios-plugins 1.3.1 and extracted >the  
> >check_ping into my libexec/ dir  and everything started to work >again.
>
> > Davy Gaussen escribió:
> >
> > >Hi,
>  >
>  >I had this problem to, try to install the nagios-plugins version 
> 1.3.x, the  >new ones have compatibilities issues with the ping 
> command of some new  >system.
>  >It worked fine for me.
>  >
>  >Davy
>  >
>  >----- Original Message -----
>  >From: "Cristobal Sabroe Yde" <cris at cd...>
>  >To: <nagios-users at li...>
>  >Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:02 PM
>  >Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: check_ping works fine from command line 
> but cgi  >shows ping resultsas "unknown"
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >>Hi, I have the exact same problem running SuSE 9.1.
>  >>
>  >>I can use ping and check_ping under the nagios user in command line 
> but  >>the cgi returns:
>  >>PING    UNKNOWN   ... /bin/ping -n -U -c 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>  >>
>  >>Nagios 2.0b1 (tried 2.0b2 as well)
>  >>Plugins 1.4,
>  >>Dist: SuSE 9.1
>  >>uname -a:  Linux moni 2.6.5-7.147-default #1 Thu Jan 27 09:19:29 
> UTC
>  >>2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>  >>
>  >>If anyone could solve this problem, please let me know.
>  >>Thanks!
>  >>------------------------
>  >>
>  >>Dirk,
>  >>
>  >> have you tried running ping (or the plugin) as user nagios or as root?
>  >>
>  >> Probably it"s an access rights problem... IIRC Fedora activates
selinux
>  >> enhancements and thus it might be necessary to change these to 
> allow
the
>  >> nagios user access to the network interface.
>  >>
>  >> Arno
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>
>
> Larry Wayne Naves, Jr. "Jay"
> Systems Analyst
> Computer Sciences Corporation /
> Alabama Supercomputer Authority
>
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