ping/failed to install socket filter

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Florian Streibelt wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was not able to find mutch information on this topic...
> 
> I am checking several hosts via ping over the internet.
> When there are more than one hosts beeing checked at the same time I get
> an 'WARNING: failed to install socket filter' and the check is going to
> WARNING state, which is painful for me, getting spammed by my own
> system...
> 
> however, I found a comment, that it may be because of the concurring pings
> not beeing able to open two icmp raw sockets tu listen to the ping reply.
> 
> Now my question is:
> 
> Is it possible to execute several other service-checks at the same time,
> but only one ping at a time ?
> 
> I have ping added as a service on some machines because they can not
> beeing checked another way.
> 

the scheduler does not know what kind of service check is being performed, 
so if it not possible to to only run one ping service at a time.

Have you tried using the check_fping plugin?  fping is typically more 
robust and faster that the system ping.

-- 
-sg



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