check "Ping" return warning message

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surachai.ch
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check "Ping" return warning message

Post by surachai.ch »

I'm running Nagios XI demo by manually install on RHEL5 and create monitoring website using configuration wizard. I found the status information for "Ping" service as below.
Warning: This plugin must be either run as root or setuid root.

Please help to verfiy.

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Re: check "Ping" return warning message

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can you run the following and report the output

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ls -l /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp
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Re: check "Ping" return warning message

Post by surachai.ch »

Yes, you are right. I have change owner of check_icmp to root and it works now. Thank you for your suggestion.
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