Problem with check_ping plugin

[Andreas Ericsson]

Leonardo Henrique Machado wrote:
> This check_ping is very strange. How could it be so dumb that a small
> difference in output could blow up the entire plugin program. It's not
> robust enogth to deal with simple changes. Since check_ping is the
> most important plugin in Nagios (all other plugins depends on
> check-host-alive) I think that It should deserve more attention from
> the developers.
> 

It has. check_icmp is the designated replacement, but as you pointed out 
it is the most important plugin and therefore requires quite a bit of 
testing before check_ping can be done away with (why check_ping was 
written to parse output in the first place is more than I can 
understand, considering the ICMP protocol is pretty well documented).

> I stopped using check_ping and started using check_icmp, which, until
> now, didn't suffered from this side effect.
> 

Do you mean check_icmp isn't working now, or do you mean it's still 
working? Being the original author, I'm fairly interested in any 
problems with it.

> 
> 
> On 2 Mar 2005 20:42:09 -0000, vivek sharma sharma
> <vivek_222 at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>   
>> Hi thanks for replying.
>> 
>> I am using Redhat Linux-2.4.20-8 
>> 
>> What do you think what adjustments i shall have to make.
>> 
>> Shall be waitng for the reply.
>> Thanks .
>> Vivek
>> 
>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 Subhendu Ghosh wrote :
>>
>> >It indicates you have an new ping program with different output.
>> >
>> >What os relase?
>> >
>> >On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 Frank.BOURDEAU at dga.defense.gouv.fr wrote:
>> >
>> >>Hi all,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>I'm using Nagios 2.0b2 with nagios-plugins 1.4 and my problem reside in
>> >>check_ping plugin.
>> >>When I use it under shell, i receive this message : "Error: could  not
>> >>interpret output from ping command".
>> >>Here is the command : (i'm in libexec directory and under root user)
>> >>./check_ping -H xx.yy.zz.tt -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
>> >>
>> >>All is red on my nagios page.
>> >>
>> >>Have anyone encountered this problem ?
>> >>
>> >>Thanks in advance for your replies .
>> >>
>> >>Frank
>> >>
>> >>frank.bourdeau at dga.defense.gouv.fr
>> >
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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