Host Down alert when Host is Up

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Fri Sep 9 16:09:54 CEST 2005


On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Fred wrote:

> On my configuration, I ping some smart switches via a host-check.
> If the TTL is out of bounds according to the host-check command
> it returns a warning or critical.  If it returns a critical the
> switch is reported as "down".
>
> -FredC

check_ping only support RTA and packet loss.  You must be using something 
else..

>
> --- Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Sxan wrote:
>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> We just changed the vlan that 2 servers are on in one
>>> location and all of a sudden Nagios is now reporting
>>> those servers as being down, even though I'm able to
>>> ping them fine from the Nagios server itself and
>>> everything else is functioning just fine. I'm confused
>>> as to why this would happen. Any ideas? I'm also
>>> wondering if this could be related to the TTL possibly
>>> changing? If so, does anyone know any simple way to
>>> change the ttl that Nagios looks for or maybe increase
>>> it somehow on the box? Thanks as always!
>>>
>>> ~Jim
>>>
>>
>> TTL doesn't matter.  Did you change the IP addr of the servers in the
>> nagios config?  Are you use state retention?
>>
>>
>> --
>> -sg
>>
>>

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