Host DOWN alerts not passing pluging output

Bruce Elrick bruce at elrick.ca
Mon Jun 28 19:48:04 CEST 2004


Alex Burger wrote:

> For some reason my host notifications for DOWN are showing the command 
> line instead of the plugin output although the output for UP is correct, 
> which seems strange.
> 
> [1088427108] HOST ALERT: server01;DOWN;SOFT;1;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 server01
> [1088427135] HOST NOTIFICATION: 
> alex;server01;DOWN;host-notify-by-email;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 server01
> [1088427305] HOST NOTIFICATION: 
> alex;server01;UP;host-notify-by-email;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 
> 0.28 ms
> 
> The host is using 'check-host-alive' which uses the following command line:
> 
> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 5000,100% -c 
> 5000,100% -p 1
> 
> If I run the above command manually when the server is up, I get:
> 
> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.28 ms
> 
> Anyone have this problem?
> 
> I am using Nagios-1.2 with nagios-plugins-1.3.1.

I've seen that too with the ping check.  Haven't pursued the cause yet.  That's with nagios 1.1 and plugins 1.3.1.


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