PING is WARNING?

Bjørn T Johansen btj at havleik.no
Wed Nov 5 09:46:58 CET 2008


Hmmmm... I should have known that.... Thx.. :)

BTJ

On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:42:02 +0100
Dennis Hünseler <dennis at huenseler.net> wrote:

> 
> Yes you can :-)
> In the Service definition you can configure which notifications go out for
> which service:
> 
> notification_options            w,u,c,r         (this will be warning,
> unknown, critical, recovery)
> 
> From nagios Documentation:
> 
> notification_options: 	This directive is used to determine when
> notifications for the service should be sent out. Valid options are a
> combination of one or more of the following: w = send notifications on a
> WARNING state, u = send notifications on an UNKNOWN state, c = send
> notifications on a CRITICAL state, r = send notifications on recoveries (OK
> state), f = send notifications when the service starts and stops flapping,
> and s = send notifications when scheduled downtime starts and ends. If you
> specify n (none) as an option, no service notifications will be sent out.
> If you do not specify any notification options, Nagios will assume that you
> want notifications to be sent out for all possible states. Example: If you
> specify w,r in this field, notifications will only be sent out when the
> service goes into a WARNING state and when it recovers from a WARNING
> state. 
> 
> 
> regards, Dennis
> 
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:23:24 +0100, Bjørn T Johansen <btj at havleik.no>
> wrote:
> > That's the problem; I don't get any errors from the commandline and
> Nagios
> > also thinks the ping is OK most of the time...
> > But is there a way to disable notification from warnings for this check?
> > 
> > BTJ
> > 
> > On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:58:26 +0100
> > Dennis Hünseler <dennis at huenseler.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> try pinging these machines from command line and take a look at the
> >> output.
> >> I think you will get an error on command line too.
> >> 
> >> regards, Dennis
> >> 
> >> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:27:29 +0100, Bjørn T Johansen <btj at havleik.no>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I get a lot of these from Nagios, what does those mean? All this is
> >> > local
> >> > servers (on our LAN) so not sure why ping is sending a warning?
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > ***** Nagios *****
> >> > 
> >> > Notification Type: PROBLEM
> >> > 
> >> > Service: PING
> >> > Host: host
> >> > Address: ip
> >> > State: WARNING
> >> > 
> >> > Date/Time: Wed Nov 5 00:03:54 CET 2008
> >> > 
> >> > Additional Info:
> >> > 
> >> > PING WARNING - System call sent warnings to stderr Packet loss = 0%,
> >> > RTA
> >> =
> >> > 0.19 ms
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > Is there a workaround? or perhaps a way to not notify on ping for just
> >> > warnings?
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > Regards,
> >> > 
> >> > BTJ
> 

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