With Nagios using check_icmp is the way to go, it better and faster, below is an example configuration directive for setting the check-host-alive command which will be used by each host check.<\/p>\n
# ‘check-host-alive’ command definition
define command{
command_name\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 check-host-alive
command_line\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $USER1$\/check_icmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 30,5% -c 100,20% -p 1
}<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
time .\/check_icmp -H 10.60.48.244 -n 5<\/p>\n
OK – 10.60.48.244: rta 0.519ms, lost 0%|rta=0.519ms;200.000;500.000;0;pl=0%;40;80;; time .\/check_ping -w 100,100% -c 500,100% -H 10.60.48.244 time .\/check_fping -H 10.60.48.244 -n 5 With Nagios using check_icmp is the way to go, it better and faster, below is an example configuration directive for setting the check-host-alive command which will be used by each host check.<\/p>\n # ‘check-host-alive’ command definitiondefine command{command_name check-host-alivecommand_line $USER1$\/check_icmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 30,5% -c 100,20% -p 1}<\/p>\n <\/p>\n time .\/check_icmp -H 10.60.48.244 -n 5<\/p>\n OK […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
0.00u 0.01s 0:00.33 3.0%<\/em><\/p>\n
PING OK – Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms
0.01u 0.00s 0:04.01 0.2%<\/p>\n
FPING OK – 10.60.48.244 (loss=0%, rta=0.640000 ms)|loss=0%;;;0;100 rta=0.000640s;;;0.000000
0.00u 0.01s 0:04.56 0.2%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"