Adjusting ping times

Nagios
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I have installed Nagios 2-0b3 on RH9 and all seeems to be working fine. Notifications work, info received from Windows and novell systems etc. I would like to change the ping times so that normal network usage which varies from <10ms to > 50 ms depending on location and network speed. I have read the doco but cannot seem to get it to change the notifications so I do not get a yellow warning if the ping time is greater than the standard which seems to be 10ms or greater. I have changed the values but seem to get no where. Basically I do not understand the doco for the check_ping command and its variable.

Thanks

2

in checkcommands how is check_ping defined?
you should have a couple of Args passed to it… (critical and warning values)
In this way you can define different times for each host you are going to ping… simply passing the % and ms values you like.

CHECKCOMMANDS

‘check_ping’ command definition

define command{
command_name check_ping
command_line $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p 5
}

ARG1 is the warning threshold, ARG2 the critical threshold…

SERVICES

service_description ping
check_command check_ping!1000,21%!2000,41%

this way we want a critical over 1000 ms or loosing 2 packets (out of 5 we are sending) and a critical if the return time is over 2000 ms or we loose 3 packets.

Luca
Edited Wed Aug 10 2005, 11:26PM ]

3

Thanks for the update. I did check the checkcommands.cfg for the ping command format and it is
’check_ping’ command definition
define command{
command_name check_ping
command_line $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p 5
}

and the services.cfg is

Service definition

define service{
use generic-service ; Name of service template to use

    host_name                       HO_CORE_SW2
    service_description             PING
    is_volatile                     0
    check_period                    24x7
    max_check_attempts              3
    normal_check_interval           5
    retry_check_interval            1
    contact_groups                  router-admins
    notification_interval           240
    notification_period             24x7
    notification_options            c,r
    check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
    }

which I believe is the standard as to how the product installs. I changed the valuses to as you stated and still get a warning if the ping time is > 10ms.

4

might sound stupid… did you restart nagios?
Try checking the command which is being used in the view config menu…
eventually test if you have multiple nagios instances running.

Luca

5

Also, you may want to run it by hand on the command line, and see if you can make it go critical by using -w 5,5% -c 6,6% or something like that.

6

I have changed the services.cfg config to match Luca’s suggestion. When I run it as a commandline it works but the command that Nagios uses is

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H 172.25.1.253 -w 10:20% -c 60:100%

I got this by doing a ps -ef command repeatedly. I have restarted Nagios, looked for multiple instances and have rebooted the machine.

7

You stated that your services.cfg file was this:
" check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%"

But then you state by doing a ps -ef that nagio is running this:
" /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H 172.25.1.253 -w 10:20% -c 60:100%"

What’s wrong with this picture? Where did 10:20% come from? Shouldn’t it be 100.0,20% What’s the : for? Double check your configs, paste your command definition for check_ping, your services.cfg definition for check_command and the output that you get when nagios runs the check.

8

my check ping command running looks different.

/export/nagios2/libexec/check_ping -H 212.90.5.69 -w 1000,21% -c 2000,41% -p 5

which is exactly the command which should be issued by command line… as jakkedup said check your configs.

Luca

9

Apologies for not getting back to you earlier as I had a couple of days off. I found the problem in the commands-plugin.cfg the line is
command[check_ping]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 10:20% -c 60:100%

I have modified the line to its correct format and hey presto all seems to work.

Thank you for your assistance.