On 5 Jul 2006, at 10:06, Ben O'Hara wrote: > Im looking at adding a ping check from our nagios host to a remote > host, the nagios machine has a number of interfaces and i want to set > the source address of the ping to ensure it goes over a specfic link > (and hence a specific VPN tunnel) > > anyone know if this is possible at all? Ive had a look at the code > for check_ping and it looks like it might be a possibility as its just > calling the ping binary but rather than reinvent the wheel i thought > id ask here first. > > anyone doing anything like this at present? > > would it be a change to check_ping that people would use or would it > be better to do it elsewhere
Ben, There is a patch that has been submitted on SF for this functionality: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1499641&group_id=29880&atid=397599 Unfortunately, this will not be applied into the main plugin code because it is too painful to parse through all the different distributions of ping to see if the source address option is supported. However, it is very useful functionality. If you can provide a patch for check_icmp (the pure C implementation of check_ping), we would definitely re-evaluate it. Ton http://www.altinity.com T: +44 (0)870 787 9243 F: +44 (0)845 280 1725 Skype: tonvoon Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
