<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C25B16.7BADEFC0"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> Hello All,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve noticed some weirdness in my event log for Nagios. Here is a sample entry:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> [<st1:date Month="9" Day="13" Year="2002">09-13-2002</st1:date> 07:55:42] SERVICE ALERT: hawk;SMTP;OK;SOFT;3;SMTP OK - 0 second response time<o:p></o:p> [<st1:date Month="9" Day="13" Year="2002">09-13-2002</st1:date> 07:54:23] SERVICE ALERT: hawk;SMTP;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;Connection refused by host <o:p></o:p> [<st1:date Month="9" Day="13" Year="2002">09-13-2002</st1:date> 07:53:53] SERVICE ALERT: hawk;SMTP;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;Connection refused by host <o:p></o:p> [<st1:date Month="9" Day="13" Year="2002">09-13-2002</st1:date> 07:32:22] SERVICE ALERT: falcon1;<st1:place>PING</st1:place>;OK;SOFT;2;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms <o:p></o:p> [<st1:date Month="9" Day="13" Year="2002">09-13-2002</st1:date> 07:31:32] SERVICE ALERT: falcon1;PING;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;<st1:place>PING</st1:place> CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 858993472.00 ms <o:p></o:p> [<st1:date Month="9" Day="13" Year="2002">09-13-2002</st1:date> 07:28:52] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully. <o:p></o:p> [<st1:date Month="9" Day="13" Year="2002">09-13-2002</st1:date> 07:<st1:time Hour="20" Minute="22">20:22</st1:time>] SERVICE ALERT: eagle;<st1:place>PING</st1:place>;OK;SOFT;2;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms <o:p></o:p> [<st1:date Month="9" Day="13" Year="2002">09-13-2002</st1:date> 07:<st1:time Hour="19" Minute="32">19:32</st1:time>] SERVICE ALERT: eagle;<st1:place>PING</st1:place>;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 858993472.00 ms <o:p></o:p> [<st1:date Month="9" Day="13" Year="2002">09-13-2002</st1:date> 07:<st1:time Hour="16" Minute="32">04:32</st1:time>] SERVICE ALERT: eagle;<st1:place>PING</st1:place>;OK;SOFT;2;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms <o:p></o:p> [<st1:date Month="9" Day="13" Year="2002">09-13-2002</st1:date> 07:<st1:time Hour="15" Minute="42">03:42</st1:time>] SERVICE ALERT: eagle;<st1:place>PING</st1:place>;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 858993472.00 ms<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Notice the high RTA entries…<o:p></o:p> I have many more entries from multiple machines like that one.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> When I run the check_ping command by hand, it works fine. Here’s a sample:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> [/nagios/libexec] ># ./check_ping -H eagle -w100,20% -c500,60%<o:p></o:p> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Just to show that it actually get’s a really real RTA:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> [/nagios/libexec] ># ./check_ping -H orhs.org -w100,20% -c500,60%<o:p></o:p> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 9.00 ms<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Any ideas why it would be getting such an outrageous RTA? And, what’s the first step to try to troubleshoot this?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’m running Nagios 1.05b, with nagiosplug-1.3-beta1, on an AIX 5.1 system.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> TIA,<o:p></o:p> Al Jeffcoat<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>