Newbie question...which plugins to use?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Steve Gilbert wrote:

> I've got a couple of questions about the various plugin choices that are
> available...
> 
> Is there any benefit to using check_fping over check_ping?  My understanding
> (which may be wrong) is that the only difference in ping and fping is that
> fping can ping a list of machines in parallel.  That seems great, but I
> don't see how this helps with the check_fping plugin, since it's only going
> to work on one host, anyway.

fping code is typically a lot faster than the system ping

> 
> Also...why do we have both check_dns and check_dig?  From my perspective,
> check_dns looks like the superior check since you can supply an address that
> you expect to be returned.  Is there a reason to have them both, or is
> check_dig just left for historical reasons?

actually check_dns uses "nslookup" which is on its way out. 

> 
> Finally...looks like the first plugin that I will be writing myself will be
> something to check that NIS servers are working...unless someone has already
> done this, and I'm not finding it.  Is there a check_nis out there somewhere
> before I reinvent the wheel?  :-)

check_rpc -C ypserv -H nisserver

-- 
-sg



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