check_icmp and check_host

[Meyer Jerome]

Thanks for your help!

> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I still have many questions about nagios J.
> > Yeah, there're many documentations on the Web, but that is not
> > always obvious to find what I seeks...
> >
> > 1)  So, I've create a link for my check_host to check_icmp! But I
> > want to known what do you think about that, is ok? Or is there a
> > special plugins for check_host?
> 
> You don't need a special plugin. Anything that will return a non-OK
> state when the host is down is fine. A ping/icmp check is most common
> for this purpose and check_icmp will work fine.
> 
> > 2)  Some cgi files doesn't exist under /usr/local/nagios/sbin/ like:
> > statusmap.cgi, trends.cgi and histogram.cgi! why and where could I
> > find this files?
> 
> This is in the FAQ. The GD libs are not installed or were not found at
> compile time. The output of ./configure will likely contain references
> to this as well.

I've installed somes packages : 

# rpm -qa|grep libjpeg
libjpeg-6b-37
libjpeg-6b-37
# rpm -qa|grep libpng
libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_3.2
libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_3.2
# rpm -qa|grep gd
gd-2.0.33-9.4.el5_1.1

> 
> > 3)  I want to have some graphs for by example the <availability>!
> > Has someone ideas where I can find documentation about that? It's
> > easy to implement???
> 
> Nagios has integrated availability reporting via the Availability menu
> option(s) though I wouldn't necessarily call it a graph. I think what
> you're looking for is the histogram mentioned above...

Do you means that the graphs will be on the "Alert Histogram" reports??


Jerome



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