On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Richard Aseltine wrote: > Looks like I need an education here. > > check_icmp and check_ping can check a particular device but native > ping fails. Any help with understanding this would be great..
check_icmp uses it's own sockets code. check_ping is just a wrapper for 'native ping' (i.e. /bin/ping). if check_ping works, regular old ping must as well. You can see the flags the check_ping is passing to /bin/ping by passing verbose flags -- $ ./plugins/check_ping -H localhost -w 10,10% -c 50,50% -vv CMD: /bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 5 localhost PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.04 ms 10.000000:10% 50.000000:50% -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null