Simple check_ping question

[Daniel Ceola]

Hello all,

Is it meant for the "check_ping" command from the Nagios plugins to not function when using a host name instead of an IP address?  I have a handful of hosts that I've setup within Nagios that I want to monitor the ping time (as well as a few other items) on, but since they are dhcp clients, I have the host within Nagios setup with the hostname on my local network instead of an IP address.

When I do a simple check_ping using the hostname (which I have entered as the local FQDN, not just a short name), it returns a "Network Unreachable" error.

Example:
nagios at nagios:/usr/local/nagios/libexec$ ./check_ping -H dceola.twgi.net -w 400,20% -c 600,50%
CRITICAL - Network Unreachable (dceola.twgi.net)

Thanks,

Daniel Ceola

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