Hello,
what is the meaning of a plugin timeout? This plugin is about a ping, does this mean that the service could not reach the host or that there is a problem with the check_ping?
***** Nagios *****
Notification Type: PROBLEM
Service: PING
Host: VCE-RTR-COLT
Address: 10.149.186.5
State: CRITICAL
Date/Time: Tue Dec 30 11:02:56 CET 2008
Additional Info:
CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 12 seconds
and sometimes we get another error: TTL execeeded.
***** Nagios *****
Notification Type: PROBLEM
Service: PING
Host: VCE-RTR-COLT
Address: 10.149.186.5
State: CRITICAL
Date/Time: Tue Dec 30 11:02:56 CET 2008
Additional Info:
CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 12 seconds
What is the difference between the two? If you’re icmp packets are taking to long to reply, I can imagine that you receive a message like TTL exceeded. If you’re host doesn’t respons you get host down… but plugin timedout?
Thank you very much in advance