check_ping and source address

[Ton Voon]

On 5 Jul 2006, at 10:06, Ben O'Hara wrote:

> Im looking at adding a ping check from our nagios host to a remote
> host, the nagios machine has a number of interfaces and i want to set
> the source address of the ping to ensure it goes over a specfic link
> (and hence a specific VPN tunnel)
>
> anyone know if this is possible at all?  Ive had a look at the code
> for check_ping and it looks like it might be a possibility as its just
> calling the ping binary but rather than reinvent the wheel i thought
> id ask here first.
>
> anyone doing anything like this at present?
>
> would it be a change to check_ping that people would use or would it
> be better to do it elsewhere

Ben,

There is a patch that has been submitted on SF for this  
functionality: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=1499641&group_id=29880&atid=397599

Unfortunately, this will not be applied into the main plugin code  
because it is too painful to parse through all the different  
distributions of ping to see if the source address option is supported.

However, it is very useful functionality. If you can provide a patch  
for check_icmp (the pure C implementation of check_ping), we would  
definitely re-evaluate it.

Ton

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