But in this case - if there is a 20% packet loss out of 10 pings sent to a host - will I be notified?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Giles Coochey</b> <<a href="mailto:gcoochey@sapphire.gi">
gcoochey@sapphire.gi</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">check_ping uses the ping command.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Packet Loss is considered a reply not
within the timeout, this can typically be around 3000ms</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">So something like:</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">./check_ping -H $HOSTNAME$ -w 3000,20% -c
3000,50%</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Will do what you want.</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
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On Behalf Of </span></b>Alex Dehaini<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> 22 October 2007 11:29<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Nagios-users] Monitor
packet loss with check_ping command</span></font><span></span></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Guys,<br>
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Can someone give me an example on how I can monitor only packet loss but not
latency<br>
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-- <br>
Alex Dehaini<br>
Developer<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alex Dehaini<br>Developer<br>Site - <a href="http://www.alexdehaini.com">www.alexdehaini.com</a><br>Email - <a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a>