host shows down but it is not

[Marc Powell]

On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Joe Konecny wrote:

> It looks like Nagios is using...
>
> check_ping!200.0,20%!600.0,60%
>
> and check_mk is using
>
> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp $HOSTADDRESS$
>
>
> ...anyone know what the difference is here?

check_ping is a wrapper for /bin/ping. It tells /bin/ping to check a  
host and parses it's output.

check_icmp uses raw sockets directly. It issues the ICMP request and  
processes the response directly.

--
Marc


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