<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi I have a problem with the check_ping command,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the status of my hosts is allways down even if all the services are all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK , the error in my log says:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>could not interpret out put from ping command</FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2>.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>when I typ $? on the command line I get the number 3 as result of check_ping</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Aug 12 19:07:37 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;SOFT;1;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 <BR>Aug 12 19:07:37 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;SOFT;2;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 <BR>Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;SOFT;3;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 <BR>Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;SOFT;4;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 <BR>Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;SOFT;5;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 <BR>Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;SOFT;6;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 <BR>Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;SOFT;7;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 <BR>Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;SOFT;8;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 <BR>Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;SOFT;9;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 <BR>Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;HARD;10;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 <BR>Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST NOTIFICATION: nagios;amsterdam;DOWN;host-notify-by-epager;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24 </FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Could Anybody give me an advice ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stefan</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>