Re: [Nagios-users] Check_Ping plugin not Incrementing Check Attempt Value

2012-02-01 Thread Robert V. Bolton
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Claudio Kuenzler wrote: > But what's strange in your log are also the missing SOFT states, where are > they? > You're correct, I'm missing some of the SOFT states. I'm going to have to do some more testing before I can say for sure if there is a bug in either Nag

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_Ping plugin not Incrementing Check Attempt Value

2012-01-31 Thread Claudio Kuenzler
Yes, you're right. But what's strange in your log are also the missing SOFT states, where are they? Did you define the service to be checked only once (max_check_attempts 1), every minute (check_interval and retry_interval 1) ? Here's an example of a typical soft-to-hard-change: Jan 31 05:15:09

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_Ping plugin not Incrementing Check Attempt Value

2012-01-30 Thread Robert V. Bolton
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Claudio Kuenzler wrote: > It looks like you use parent-child-relationships? > That would explain why it's written "Host Unreachable (172.21.10.170) " > instead of Host Down. > Was the parent of this host down as well? In this case, Nagios 'knows' > that it doesn't

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_Ping plugin not Incrementing Check Attempt Value

2012-01-30 Thread Claudio Kuenzler
It looks like you use parent-child-relationships? That would explain why it's written "Host Unreachable (172.21.10.170) " instead of Host Down. Was the parent of this host down as well? In this case, Nagios 'knows' that it doesn't make sense to continue checks on the child hosts. On Mon, Jan 30, 2

[Nagios-users] Check_Ping plugin not Incrementing Check Attempt Value

2012-01-30 Thread Robert V. Bolton
Over the weekend I had a weird event happen in my monitoring set. I have a host that has an Infiniband interface, and we are running the IP protocol over Infiniband, while using the check_ping plugin to verify network connectivity. This weekend our Ethernet to Infiniband gateway went down and the c