Packet loss reported by check_ping?

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> I would appreciate if you didn't bring mail discussions off-list. It 
> prevents others who might have the same problem from benefiting from 
> the suggestions, and makes it impossible for archivers to pick up the 
> entire discussion which in turn makes it impossible for google to 
> index it, so that means everyone on this list that answers questions 
> will have to answer the same question over and over again.
>
> Please don't do it again. Thanks.
Oh I'm sorry, I forgot to copy the list in the first-time round, but if 
you check your account, you'll see that I forwarded the message to the 
list separately at 3:43 having realised my mistake, so everyone saw it.
>
> I'm guessing you've enabled passive host checks and also enabled 
> freshness checking with a freshness threshold for hosts. This will 
> effectively force host-checks with exactly the sort of logmessages you 
> showed above.
Yes I had enabled check_freshness, however the freshness_threshold was 
set to 0, so would this still take effect?
I've disabled freshness checking and restarted Nagios so I'll see what 
happens.
>
> Yes, the checks aren't scheduled the normal way, or you wouldn't see 
> the "warning... stale by...". It would just run the check and shut up.
>
Thanks,

-- 
Andy Shellam
NetServe Support Team

the Mail Network
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