Pingging with check_fping

[Israel Brewster]

On Nov 21, 2008, at 4:14 AM, Yu Watanabe wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I found a plugin check_fping in the nagios exchange that pings to  
> each host.
>
> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1709.html;d=1
>
> However, the timeout value and the thresholds seems to be not  
> working properly.
>
> Are there any ping plugins that can statisfy the following criteria?
>
> 1. Able to specify the actual timeout value of ping
> 2. Able to specify the count of ICMP packets to be sent
> 3. Able to specify the interval time between the ICMP packets
> 4. Able to specify the thresholds of rta and pl
> 5. If at least one ping packet is sent and received OK the plugin  
> returns 0
>
> It would be a great help if someone gives me an advice.

You might look at check_icmp. It has command line switches for  
requirements 1-4, and if you make a symlink to it named check_host, it  
behaves as specified in criteria #5.

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>
> Thank you
> Yu Watanabe
>
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