check_ping can't interpret output

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Dave Close wrote:
| I have the same version of Nagios installed on a dozen systems (not
| machines, full systems with several hundred machines each). Except for
| the specific list of machines, the configuration is identical between
| them. All are installed by yum from the Fedora 7 RPMs, version
| 2.10-3.fc7. All the plugins were installed the same way and are version
| 1.4.11-2.fc7.

Hmm. Please read the various comments on the lifespan of fedora releases
on this and other mailinglists. Is this what you want in a corporate
environment?

| On one system only, check_host_alive (which calls check_ping) reports
| that all machines are down, while at the same time Nagios reports that
| most services on those machines are up. Running check_ping as root from
| the command line gets a successful response. Digging further, I have
| enabled user "apache", which is the user httpd runs as, then tried the
| command as user apache. Here is the result.

I am a bit puzzled. Plugins are run as nagios user and not as apache
user so why test as apache user. Unless your nagios setup deviates quite
a bit in this regard bt I find that rather unlikely at this momemt.
|
| # /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping -H machine -w 3000.0,80% -c
| 5000.0,100% -p 1
| PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.16 ms
| # su - apache -c "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping -H machine -w
| 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1"
| /bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 1 machine
| CRITICAL - Could not interpret output from ping command
|
| Some online references appear to suggest this could be caused by a LANG
| environment variable. I temporarily replaced the check_ping command with
| a wrapper script that saved the environment to a file before calling the
| actual command. There was no difference in LANG and the only other
| differences had to do with the name of the last machine tested. All
| systems report LANG=en_US.UTF-8.

This would only matter if these variables differ for various users.

If you want to compare system properly compare the binaries wih MD5
hashes and things like that.

Also read the suggestions to drop check_ping for better checks in the
archives of this mailinglist.

Hugo.

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