check_fping strangeness

Terry Simons galimore at mac.com
Thu Aug 15 17:39:39 CEST 2002


While this may be true, you get a different error in that case, which is 
not what Myke is seeing:

This program can only be run by root, or it must be setuid root.

- Terry

On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 06:21 AM, Chet Luther wrote:

> Myke,
>     The fping utility opens a raw socket.  Every UNIX I've ever used
> restricted this operation to the root user.  What I had to do on my 
> system
> to get check_fping to work was 'chown root:nagiosgroup' both the fping
> binary and check_fping plugin, then 'chmod 4750' them so that they 
> would be
> executed with root privileges.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Chet Luther
> chet at rcn.com
>
>>> Ah!
>>>
>>> Sorry, I should have read more carefully.
>>
>> No problem, it took me a while to catch it myself.
>>
>>> What does your check_fping definition look like?
>>
>> # 'check_fping' command definition
>> define command{
>>         command_name check_fping
>>         command_line $USER1$/check_fping $HOSTADDRESS$
>>         }
>>
>>
>>> Does fping correctly report for up hosts?
>>
>> It shows OK for both hosts that are up as well as those that are down.
>>
>>> Also, where did you get the plugin from?  (Is it a Nagios plugin, or
>>> the old netsaint plugins)?
>>
>> I'm using the latest release of Nagios plugins.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> - Terry
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 10:04  PM, Myke Place wrote:
>>>
>>>> Terry,
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that the output of the plugins reports the host as
>>>> being in
>>>> an 'OK' state which of course a host would not be were it down.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, terry wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah,
>>>>>
>>>>> Your problem isn't with Nagios. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> The plugin is working exactly as it should.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's reporting what fping is telling it.
>>>>>
>>>>> fping thinks your host is unreachable.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Terry
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 08:51  AM, Myke Place wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes it does. Here is the output of fping:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> fping deadhost
>>>>>> deadhost is unreachable
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does fping work on the commandline?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Terry
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 01:36  PM, Myke Place wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm having a bit of trouble getting check_fping to report the
> status
>>>>>>> of a
>>>>>>> host correctly to Nagios. The problem that exists as follows when
>>>>>>> using
>>>>>>> check_fping to contact a host that I know is unreachable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ./check_fping deadhost
>>>>>>> FPING OK - deadhost (loss=100.000000%, rta=0.000000 ms)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> fping: Version 2.4b2_to $Date: 2002/01/16 00:33:42 $
>>>>>>> fping: comments to david at remote.net
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there something I'm missing here? Does check_fping need some
>>>>>>> special
>>>>>>> arguments to work properly in checkcommands.cfg?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --------------------
>>>>>> Myke Place
>>>>>> mp at xmission.com
>>>>>> 801.539.0852
>>>>>> www.radiojournal.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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