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tmcdonald wrote:Not a problem, that's why we're here. I assume it's safe to lock this thread up?

Please feel free to do whatever.

Thanks again.

Oops… I’ve solved it and I’m VERY sorry but it was a stupid typo on my part! :( The IP address had been accidentally edited in the hosts.cfg to an incorrect value. Every time I was running the script from the command line I was using the host name hence the reason it was working. Makes absolute sens...

Hi Slansing, I’m on the limit of my Nagios knowledge here so apologies if I’m missing stuff out. the host has the following entry in the hosts.cfg file (pollux being the name of the server that runs Nagios) define host{ use linux-server host_name nile alias nile address xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx parents p...

Have you tried adding a timeout value in the command definition? For example: # 'check-host-alive' command definition define command{ command_name check-host-alive command_line $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5 -t 30 } just tried it (again) and still the same fai...

I just wanted to verify the plugins were actually installed to that directory, can you run the following and show the output? Hi slansing, output below as requested. As you can see the plugin is installed and does run ok from the command line but I am still getting "Plugin timed out after 10 s...

Can you post the output of the following commands in code-wrap? I have used your post above as an example: ls -la /app/nagios/libexec/ Hi slansing, before I do that do you need the entire list of output? There are a lot of bespoke scripts in that directory developed by our site and it will make for...

Well of course you can edit out the IP in the form of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and change the server name to <server name>, so back to whatever square we were just in. ok is this what you mean... Extract from hosts.cfg [/u] define host{ use linux-server host_name nile alias nile address xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx ...

slansing wrote:Can you copy the host definition to which that ping service is attached and share it here?

Hi slansing,

thanks for the reply, I'm not allowed to post the server name & IP address of the server on a public forum

back to square one I'm afraid

cheers

How long does a normal ping to the system take - longer than 10 seconds? Hi abrist, I ran some tests and from the command line every time it was approx. 4 seconds returning the following output... ./check_ping -H nile -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 10 -t 50 PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.46 m...

Hi guys, bit of a newbie question please go easy on me… Nagios was installed and configured (on our Unix servers) by someone who’s not with us anymore and I’m now looking after it with limited knowledge (but I’m getting better). We have a Linux server that only has one check and that is to see if it...