Why do you need to make a "0 byte" ping? (I'm not particularly up on networking, but a 0 byte ping would in theory send nothing, right?)
Tried doing this on my Fedora system, and you still get a minimum of 8 bytes back: /bin/ping -s 0 www.google.com PING www.l.google.com (216.239.59.99) 0(28) bytes of data. 8 bytes from 216.239.59.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 The Nagios plugin doesn't seem to have a size parameter, so to limit network traffic what you could do is only send 1 packet (in practice I believe it will send 2 - one when it first runs the plugin, then another to confirm the result - don't know why, but it's been bought to light on the list toward the beginning of December.) Thus you would add "-p 1" to your check_ping command (or change the current value of "-p" if it's already present) to only send 1 packet. Hope this helps. Andy. dhaval thakar wrote: > Dear All, > > I want to monitor my VSAT branches using nagios, > For that I need to make 0 bytes ping. > > Kindly suggest me how to ping 0 bytes useing check_ping plugin. > > > Regards > Dhaval > > _________________________________________________________________ > >From photos to predictions, The MSN Entertainment Guide to Golden Globes has > it all. http://tv.msn.com/tv/globes2007/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > !DSPAM:37,459a60f431946550517838! > > > -- Andy Shellam NetServe Support Team the Mail Network "an alternative in a standardised world" p: +44 (0) 121 288 0832/0839 m: +44 (0) 7818 000834 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ 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
