Re: [Nagios-devel] Problem with ping-check?
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:38 am
On 15 Oct 2007, at 14:20, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> True. AFAIR that's the primary reason check_ping is still around.
> Perhaps it
> would have been better to put all effort into improving check_ping
> instead of
> creating a replacement for it, especially in light of parallellized
> host checks
> in nagios 3
I'm fine with supporting both check_ping and check_icmp. One general
aim of the plugins is to better use system calls, rather than
wrapping external commands, but in the case of setuid root, I think
it is reasonable to allow both. And check_icmp has some useful
functionality that would be very difficult in check_ping (primarily
timeouts for host unavailability, multiple ip addresses).
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