Cannot ping switches

[Phil7269]

I am trying to add my network switches and devices to nagios. I just want nagios to ping these devices so it can alert me if they go down

I have modified nagios.cfg to include switch.cfg. I have added 2 entries to switch.cfg and configured the ping service for both devices. Yet at the nagios web page the devices are shown as down and cannot be reached. I can ping these IP addresses from the nagios server and I can also ping these devices using the check_ping command from the command prompt.

What would cause nagios to show these devices as down yet i can ping from the command line and execute the check_ping command from the command line and have it reach both devices? I have tried adding the -4 option to the check ping command but that does not make a difference. Below are the host definition and ping command for a device in my switch.cfg file that is showing as down in Nagios.

define host{
use generic-switch
host_name Firewall
alias Firewall
address 192.168.12.253
hostgroups network
}



define service{
use generic-service
host_name Firewall
service_description PING
check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
normal_check_interval 5
retry_check_interval 1
}

[agriffin]

What is the last check time on these switches when you view the host info in the web interface? Is it actually checking them?

[Phil7269]

This is the most recent check time from the website:

10-16-2012 14:47:16


It is checking them. I checked at 14:50

[Phil7269]

Found that if I put the devices in the Windows.cfg file I can ping them. When I place the devices in switch.cfg nagios cannot monitor them. Any advice on what might be wrong will be appreciated.

[yancy]

Phil7269,

When adding the host and service to switch.cfg, did you verify your configuration and restart nagios

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/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg