Check_Ping plugin not Incrementing Check Attempt Value

[Claudio Kuenzler]

It looks like you use parent-child-relationships?
That would explain why it's written "Host Unreachable (172.21.10.170) "
instead of Host Down.
Was the parent of this host down as well? In this case, Nagios 'knows' that
it doesn't make sense to continue checks on the child hosts.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Robert V. Bolton
<robert at robertvbolton.com>wrote:

> Over the weekend I had a weird event happen in my monitoring set. I have a
> host that has an Infiniband interface, and we are running the IP protocol
> over Infiniband, while using the check_ping plugin to verify network
> connectivity. This weekend our Ethernet to Infiniband gateway went down and
> the check_ping plugin reported that state as CRITICAL, however the it
> didn't increment the check attempt value, and thus a notification wasn't
> sent out since the max check attempts threshold was never reached. I've
> included some of the output of /var/log/messages that indicates the
> problem. Has anyone else seen this issue? As a side note I've since changed
> my service check to use check_icmp instead of check_ping.
>
> Jan 28 17:12:12 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 17:13:12 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 17:14:12 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 17:15:12 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
>
> Jan 28 17:42:12 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 17:43:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 17:44:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 17:47:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 17:48:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 17:49:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 17:50:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
>
> Jan 28 18:31:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 18:32:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 18:33:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
>
> Jan 28 18:42:23 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 18:43:23 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 18:44:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
> Jan 28 18:45:22 monitor nagios: SERVICE ALERT: hamrock.chpc.utah.edu;IPv4
> IPoIB Ping Check;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
> (172.21.10.170)
>
>
> --
> *Robert V. Bolton*
> Email: robert at robertvbolton.com
> Web: http://robertvbolton.com
>
>
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