This patch appears to cover the case I ran into, which was:
Subject: ALERT foo.com/ping: unidentified output from fping: [ICMP Time Exceeded from
192.168.1.1 for ICMP Echo sent to foo.com (192.168.1.1)] (Wed Feb 20 19:28:13)
Summary output : unidentified output from fping: [ICMP Time Exceeded
from 152.63.72.81 for ICMP Echo sent to cityofeagan.com (156.142.111.4)]
Group : foo.com
Service : ping
Time noticed : Wed Feb 20 19:28:13 2002
Secs until next alert :
Members : foo.com
Detailed text (if any) follows:
-------------------------------
unidentified output from fping: [ICMP Time Exceeded from 192.168.1.2 for ICMP Echo
sent to foo.com (192.168.1.1)]
unidentified output from fping: [ICMP Time Exceeded from 192.168.1.2 for ICMP Echo
sent to foo.com (192.168.1.1)]
foo.com
start time: Wed Feb 20 19:27:09 2002
end time : Wed Feb 20 19:27:11 2002
duration : 2 seconds
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
unreachable hosts
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
foo.com
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:45:03PM -0500, Ed Ravin wrote:
> Steven F Siirila writes:
> >
> > Bug Report:
> > If fping.monitor parses an unrecognized line from fping, it writes that
> > line to stderr BEFORE writing anything else to stderr/stdout. This causes
> > the resulting error message to appear in the summary line instead of the
> > sorted list of hosts appearing there.
>
> Do you have the patch I posted a while ago for fping.monitor? It adds
> code to separate hosts and details the way most monitors do. I see
> that I didn't fix the STDERR problem though. Try applying my patch
> and then making this additional change:
>
>
> delete the line:
> print STDERR "unidentified output from fping: [$_]\n";
>
> and replace with:
> $details{"unknown"}= $_;
> push @unreachable, "unknown";
>
> Which should print all unknown messages at the end, with the fake
> hostname "unknown". If this isn't sufficient, please post the messages
> you're getting.
>
> -- Ed
>
> --------------------
> --- fping.monitor 2001/10/12 04:37:52 1.1
> +++ fping.monitor 2001/10/12 04:39:13
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
> my $CMD = "fping -e -r $RETRIES -t $TIMEOUT";
> my $START_TIME = time;
> my $END_TIME;
> +my %details;
>
> exit 0 if (@ARGV == 0);
>
> @@ -91,6 +92,16 @@
> push @unreachable, $1;
> }
>
> +# ICMP Host Unreachable from 1.2.3.4 for ICMP Echo sent to 2.4.6.8
> +
> + elsif (/^ICMP (.*) for ICMP Echo sent to (\S+)/)
> + {
> + if (! exists $details{$2})
> + {
> + $details{$2}= $_;
> + }
> + }
> +
> else
> {
> print STDERR "unidentified output from fping: [$_]\n";
> @@ -149,6 +160,11 @@
> }
>
> print "\n";
> +
> + foreach my $ipnum (@unreachable)
> + {
> + print $ipnum, " : ", $details{$ipnum}, "\n" if exists $details{$ipnum};
> + }
> }
>
>
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