check ping unusual issue

[Morris, Patrick]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, shadih rahman wrote:

> All,
>    My check ping result is not making sense.  I have the following in commands.cfg
> 
> define command{
>         command_name    check-host-alive
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 45 -4 -w 3000.0,100% -c 3000.0,100% -p 1
>         }
> 
> 
> However I see the following output
> 
> 
>  Mon Aug 17 13:06:34 2009];HOST ALERT: HostA;UP;SOFT;2;PING OK - Packet loss = 87%, RTA = 2.09 ms
> [Mon Aug 17 13:09:24 2009];HOST ALERT: Host B;DOWN;SOFT;2;PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 94%, RTA = 4001.56 ms
>  [Mon Aug 17 13:14:44 2009];HOST ALERT: Host C;UP;SOFT;3;PING OK - Packet loss = 93%, RTA = 1.15 ms
>  [Mon Aug 17 13:55:14 2009];HOST ALERT: Host D;UP;SOFT;2;PING OK - Packet loss = 83%, RTA = 2.19 ms
> 
> 
> How can I have 87 % packet loss when I am sending only on packet.  Can someone please explain this to me.  Thanks in advance.

Which version of the plugins are you using, on which version of Nagios?
There have been bugs in some versions of the plugin that might cause
results like that, but there's not enough information here to know if
that's the case with your issue.

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