RE: FPING

Fping also has the ability to send out all of the packets nearly
simultaneously.  The interval between packets is configurable.  So instead
of waiting 10 seconds for 5 packets to timeout if something goes down, you
only have a < 3 second total timeout for all 5 packets.  Thereby greatly
improving your system performance, even during a large outage on a large
network.  This is more useful for service checks, since host checks send out
only one packet by default.

Richard  
 
    

-----Original Message-----
From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:38 PM
To: nagios-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] FPING

I just checked fping.com.  Aside from the ability to be able to ping
multiple hosts at once (something which doesn't seem to be a useful feature
in Nagios, since check_fping still needs to specify only one host), there
doesn't appear to be any benefit to it.

Is there something I'm missing?

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:mpowell@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 3:58 PM
> To: nagios-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] FPING
> 
> 
> Once all this is done Peter, you can create a new check_fping command
> like so or modify the command_line for your existing 
> check_ping command.
> 
> # 'check_fping' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check_fping
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_fping $HOSTADDRESS$ -n 
> 10 -w500.0
> 30 -c1000.0 60 
>         }
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 3:31 PM
> > To: nagios-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] FPING
> > 
> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Peter Krzystofiak wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't have fping in /libexec
> > >
> > > I downloaded fping from fping.com and tried to turn it
> > > into a plugin... but it doesn't return any values.
> > >
> > > How can I get the binary?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Peter
> > 
> > Install fping from fping.com somewher in your PATH
> > 
> > Delete config.cache in nagiosplugins source dir
> > 
> > run configure (to detect fping) and make (to compile check_fping)
> > 
> > cp plugins/check_fping to your libexec dir.
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > -sg
> > 
> > 
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