Trouble with configuration of check_ping

Nagios Nagios Configuration support
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Hello.

I set up Nagios on a machine at my office to monitor our five linux printservers, and our three Novell servers.
My problem is as follows:

When I look at the “host details” part in the html interface of Nagios, I read “check_ping: %s: Warning threshold must be integer or percentage”.
But when I look at the service details, it says that the ping is ok, and the loss is 0% or something like this.

The “last check” entry is also very strange to me; first, it was somethin in march 06 (when I first experimented with Nagios), now it says something like “August 17th”, although it is run almost daily.

I know that the fault is probably some setting I did wrong, since I am no Linux or networking expert; but I read the documentation a lot, and checked the cfg files all over - but still I do not know why Nagios reports what it reports.

Can anyone help me? I would really appreciate help =)

Thankyou,

Regards,
Manfred

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Nagios does NOT perform HOST checks on a scheduled basis, unless you really want it to. But you should never do that. So, your error, check_ping: %s: Warning threshold must be integer or percentage". is due to your configs.
WHat do you have defined as your host check. What does that defintion look like in checkcommands.cfg?

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Hi,
thanks for your reply.

I did not know that thing about the host checks. That was helpful; must have overread it in the documentation or something.

What I also found is that I configured the host-checks stupidly, because I forgot to add parameters to the check command.
But I always looked in the services.cfg, and there were parameters; so it took some time to find this mistake =)

Now I entered very very fast latency as threshold - and it worked; I got a warning =)

Thankyou again for your help,
I will get back if anything else strange turns up =) (only a matter of time :wink: ).

Manfred