<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div class="WordSection1"> I believe there Is a previous post about a bug in check_ping. Use check_icmp instead.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> HTH<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Marty<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"> From: Robert V. Bolton [mailto:robert@robertvbolton.com] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 12:06 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] False Positive Results for check_ping<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> I'm seeing a lot of false positive results from one of the host I'm monitoring with the check_ping plugin. Looking at the logs I see various degrees of packet lost for this host, but when a run the standard ping from the command line don't have any packet loss. Does anyone have any insight about this? --- Section From Log File --- Aug 20 08:55:29 monitor nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;gw-ssb-moria;Ping Check IPv4;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 50%, RTA = 0.57 ms Aug 20 08:55:35 monitor nagios: PASSIVE SERVICE CHECK: gw-ssb-moria;Ping Check IPv4;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 50%, RTA = 0.57 ms Aug 20 08:56:36 monitor nsca[25608]: SERVICE CHECK -> Host Name: 'gw-ssb-moria', Service Description: 'Ping Check IPv4', Return Code: '0', Output: 'PING OK - Packet loss = 37%, RTA = 0.56 ms' Aug 20 08:56:38 monitor nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;gw-ssb-moria;Ping Check IPv4;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 37%, RTA = 0.56 ms Aug 20 08:56:44 monitor nagios: PASSIVE SERVICE CHECK: gw-ssb-moria;Ping Check IPv4;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 37%, RTA = 0.56 ms Aug 20 08:57:44 monitor nsca[27186]: SERVICE CHECK -> Host Name: 'gw-ssb-moria', Service Description: 'Ping Check IPv4', Return Code: '0', Output: 'PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 1.19 ms' Aug 20 08:57:48 monitor nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;gw-ssb-moria;Ping Check IPv4;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 1.19 ms Aug 20 08:57:53 monitor nagios: PASSIVE SERVICE CHECK: gw-ssb-moria;Ping Check IPv4;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 1.19 ms Aug 20 08:58:14 monitor nsca[27765]: HOST CHECK -> Host Name: 'gw-ssb-moria', Return Code: '0', Output: 'PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.55 ms' Aug 20 08:58:16 monitor nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_HOST_CHECK_RESULT;gw-ssb-moria;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.55 ms Aug 20 08:58:23 monitor nagios: PASSIVE HOST CHECK: gw-ssb-moria;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.55 ms Aug 20 08:58:44 monitor nsca[28875]: SERVICE CHECK -> Host Name: 'gw-ssb-moria', Service Description: 'Ping Check IPv4', Return Code: '0', Output: 'PING OK - Packet loss = 50%, RTA = 0.54 ms' Aug 20 08:58:49 monitor nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;gw-ssb-moria;Ping Check IPv4;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 50%, RTA = 0.54 ms Aug 20 08:58:53 monitor nagios: PASSIVE SERVICE CHECK: gw-ssb-moria;Ping Check IPv4;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 50%, RTA = 0.54 ms Aug 20 08:59:46 monitor nsca[30278]: SERVICE CHECK -> Host Name: 'gw-ssb-moria', Service Description: 'Ping Check IPv4', Return Code: '0', Output: 'PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.54 ms' Aug 20 08:59:48 monitor nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;gw-ssb-moria;Ping Check IPv4;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.54 ms Aug 20 08:59:54 monitor nagios: PASSIVE SERVICE CHECK: gw-ssb-moria;Ping Check IPv4;0;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.54 ms --- Results From Ping Command --- PING 172.30.0.3 (172.30.0.3) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.531 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.563 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.506 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.554 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.505 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.561 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=0.534 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=0.499 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=0.496 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=0.554 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.30.0.3">172.30.0.3</a>: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=0.512 ms --- 172.30.0.3 ping statistics --- 11 packets transmitted, 11 received, 0% packet loss, time 10000ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.496/0.528/0.563/0.035 ms -- Robert V. Bolton Email: <a href="mailto:robert@robertvbolton.com" target="_blank">robert@robertvbolton.com</a> Web: <a href="http://robertvbolton.com" target="_blank">http://robertvbolton.com</a> <o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>