Error with "check_ping" and other basic status tools

[Desmond Chia]

/usr/local/nagios/libexec you mean??  :-)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jon Lyons 
  To: Nicholas P. Bernstein ; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
  Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Error with "check_ping" and other basic status tools


  You need to download and install the plugins, and they'll endup in /usr/local/libexec/nagios... :) 

   "Nicholas P. Bernstein" <nickbernstein at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 

    OS: GNU LINUX, RedHat v. 7.3
    Nagios: 1.0

    Overview:
    I've successfully installed nagios and have it at the point where one host
    is defined and it doesn't give me errors when I start it. Currently, I'm
    getting the error: "(Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be
    missing)" - which would be expected, and in fact was expected in regards to
    something like the free-space, or Current Users checks, but I wouldn't think
    for the ping. I would have to install client software for the the other
    checks, but not for ping.

    I'm sure that this has been discussed before, and I apologize. This is
    happening in essentially the default install but I didn't see anything in
    the installation/configuration guide that discussed this. This is my first
    time setting up nagios, and the only thing that I could find that seemed
    even close to relevant was this:
    http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=17 but from what I I
    understand, nagios got rid of the /usr/local/nagios/libexec directory when
    it changed over from netsaint -> nagios.

    I did an "fgrep ping *" in the nagios/etc directory to see if I could figure
    out what nagios was calling to try and ping the server (one would think
    /bin/ping but you never know) and the only thing I could come up with is
    that in the checkcommands.cfg file the check_ping command is defined as:

    # 'check_ping' command definition
    define command{
    command_name check_ping
    command_line $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$ -c
    $ARG2$ -p 5
    }

    and
    resource.cfg:$USER1$=/usr/local/nagios/libexec

    Am I daft, or just missing something? It seems like the
    /usr/local/nagios/libexec directory should have been created during
    installation and there should be a *bunch* of stuff in it. Could someone
    point to where I can get these files?

    Any help or explanations would be very greatly appreciated.

    Thanks in advance,
    Nick


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