check_fping strangeness

[Myke Place]

Terry,

The problem is that the output of the plugins reports the host as being in
an 'OK' state which of course a host would not be were it down.

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, terry wrote:

> Yeah,
>
> Your problem isn't with Nagios. :)
>
> The plugin is working exactly as it should.
>
> It's reporting what fping is telling it.
>
> fping thinks your host is unreachable.
>
> - Terry
>
> On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 08:51  AM, Myke Place wrote:
>
> > Yes it does. Here is the output of fping:
> >
> > fping deadhost
> > deadhost is unreachable
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >> Does fping work on the commandline?
> >>
> >> - Terry
> >
> > On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 01:36  PM, Myke Place wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm having a bit of trouble getting check_fping to report the status
> >> of a
> >> host correctly to Nagios. The problem that exists as follows when
> >> using
> >> check_fping to contact a host that I know is unreachable.
> >>
> >> ./check_fping deadhost
> >> FPING OK - deadhost (loss=100.000000%, rta=0.000000 ms)
> >
> >> fping: Version 2.4b2_to $Date: 2002/01/16 00:33:42 $
> >> fping: comments to david at remote.net
> >>
> >> Is there something I'm missing here? Does check_fping need some
> >> special
> >> arguments to work properly in checkcommands.cfg?
> >>
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> >>
> >
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