how to ping instead of check_ping.v6 not found.

[prabhu.anandh at wipro.com]

Hi Marc,
I appreciate what you have said and when I checked the options using -h
,I found out that it doesn't support v6.any ideas.
Do I have to install latest version of plugins? 
Thanks in advance.
This is what I get:
]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -h
check_ping (nagios-plugins 1.3.1) 1.11
The nagios plugins come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may
redistribute
copies of the plugins under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Ethan Galstad/Karl DeBisschop
<kdebisschop at users.sourcef
orge.net>

Use ping to check connection statistics for a remote host.

Usage:
 check_ping -H <host_address> -w <wrta>,<wpl>%% -c <crta>,<cpl>%%
       [-p packets] [-t timeout] [-L]

 check_ping (-h | --help) for detailed help
 check_ping (-V | --version) for version information

Options:
-H, --hostname=HOST
   host to ping
-w, --warning=THRESHOLD
   warning threshold pair
-c, --critical=THRESHOLD
   critical threshold pair
-p, --packets=INTEGER
   number of ICMP ECHO packets to send (Default: 5)
-t, --timeout=INTEGER
   optional specified timeout in second (Default: 10)
-L, --link
   show HTML in the plugin output (obsoleted by urlize)
THRESHOLD is <rta>,<pl>% where <rta> is the round trip average travel
time (ms) which triggers a WARNING or CRITICAL state, and <pl> is the
percentage of packet loss to trigger an alarm state.

This plugin uses the ping command to probe the specified host for packet
loss
(percentage) and round trip average (milliseconds). It can produce HTML
output
linking to a traceroute CGI contributed by Ian Cass. The CGI can be
found in
the contrib area of the downloads section at http://www.nagios.org


Send email to nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net if you have questions
regarding use of this software. To submit patches or suggest
improvements,
send email to nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net

regards,
Prabhu Anandh S.


-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc
Powell
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 8:51 PM
To: Prabhu Anandh (WT01 - TELECOM & INTER-NETWORKING SOLUTIONS)
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] how to ping instead of check_ping.


On Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:59 AM, prabhu.anandh at wipro.com shared with
us:


> option. And moreover,I am not doing this for learning.I have some ipv6

> only machines and I am not able to ping using the ping command,so I 
> have to use ping6 for that.i am testing whether it works
> for ping or not and I need your help in solving this problem.       
> I am putting this problem in mailing list ,since I feel this will be a

> important subject. Thanks in advance.

Subhendu has already stated that the check_ping in plugins 1.4.x (CVS I
presume) supports IPV6 hosts. Instead of going through all the
machinations of writing your own plugin in a language you seem to not
fully understand, why don't you just grab that and use it instead? Why
re-invent the wheel if it's not a learning experience and you don't have
to?

--
Marc


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