difference between check-host-alive vs check_ping?

[ikekim]

What is the difference between check-host-alive(check_icmp) and check_ping?

I looked up check_icmp -h and there was not much explanation.

When I am adding host using core configuration manager, would it matter which I should use?
As a best practice , should I use check_icmp?


thanks,
ik

[dwasswa]

Hi @ikekim,

The check_icmp program is meant as a replacement for the check_ping plugin supplied with the Nagios-plugins package.

It does not use the distributions ping command and therefore does not have to parse any output.