check-host-alive returns /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 192.168.231.7

[Thomas Quinlan]

Russ,

Actually, what I meant to say was that I was using
Nagios 1.1, and not Nagios 1.2 (not check-host-alive
vs. check_ping) - but of course, I was distracted
while writing the email.  ;)

Tom

--- Russ Hubbard <russ.hubbard at lsil.com> wrote:
> Th
> omas,
> The check-host-alive uses check_ping to do it's
> check. So it is the same 
> as yours.  I am having the same issue with nagios
> reporting a server 
> down when it is actually up.
> 
> Russ
> 
> 
> Thomas Quinlan wrote:
> 
> >I am all of a sudden having the same issue, on two
> >different Nagios boxes.  The difference for me is
> that
> >I am using check_ping instead of check-host-alive. 
> >(Some boxes return ok, other boxes return "bin/ping
> -n
> >-U -c 5 w.x.y.z".)
> >
> >The additional problem I am having with that is
> that
> >Nagios is actually incorrectly reporting a box as
> >down, when in fact it is up.  I can ping it from
> the
> >box (using "bin/ping -n -U -c 5 w.x.y.123") as both
> >"root" and "nagios", so there's no reason Nagios
> >should see it as not pinging.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on
> >>behalf of Russ Hubbard
> >>Sent: Tue 5/25/2004 10:56 AM
> >>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >>Subject: [Nagios-users] check-host-alive returns
> >>/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 192.168.231.7
> >> 
> >>Hello,
> >>   Last night I encountered some check-host-alive
> >>commands that are 
> >>returning some weird information. They return
> >>"/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 
> >>192.168.231.7" as the output and mark the host as
> >>down.  I've gone 
> >>through the list archives and mostly I found that
> >>this can be caused by 
> >>/bin/ping not having permissions of 4755. I have
> >>checked this, here is 
> >>the verification:
> >>
> >>-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        28724 Sep 11 
> >>2003 /bin/ping
> >>
> >>I am currently running Nagios 1.2. I have been
> >>running nagios for about 
> >>a year and this is the first occurance of this
> >>problem I have had. I 
> >>have had a few outages in that time and they all
> >>return the appropriate 
> >>status information. Here is an example:
> >>
> >>PING CRITICAL - Host Unreachable (172.21.35.28)
> >>
> >>Here is my check-host-alive command from
> >>checkcommand.cfg:
> >>
> >># 'check-host-alive' command definition
> >>define command{
> >>        command_name    check-host-alive
> >>        command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H
> >>$HOSTADDRESS$ -w 
> >>3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
> >>        }
> >>
> >>
> >>Any help at all in fixing this problem would be
> >>great. 
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Russ
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    
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