Nagios : check_ping CRITICAL – popen timeout received, but no child process

by Perk1z on December 15, 2008

Nagios is the leader in system, network, and application monitoring. Its the industry standard for good reason

Nagios is the leader in system, network, and application monitoring. It's the industry standard for good reason

[root@ibm /usr/local/nagios/libexec]# ./check_ping -H titik.org -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5
CRITICAL – popen timeout received, but no child process

try the CVS snapshot at http://nagiosplug.sf.net/snapshot

[root@ibm ~]# wget http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/snapshot/nagios-plugins-HEAD.tar.gz
–2008-12-15 14:10:52–  http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/snapshot/nagios-plugins-HEAD.tar.gz
Resolving nagiosplug.sourceforge.net… 216.34.181.96
Connecting to nagiosplug.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.96|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 1845366 (1.8M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `nagios-plugins-HEAD.tar.gz’

100%[===========================>] 1,845,366   8.15K/s   in 3m 34s

2008-12-15 14:14:29 (8.41 KB/s) – `nagios-plugins-HEAD.tar.gz’ saved [1845366/1845366]

[root@ibm ~]# tar zxvf nagios-plugins-HEAD.tar.gz
[root@ibm ~/nagios-plugins-trunk-200812150100]# ./configure –without-ipv6
[root@ibm ~/nagios-plugins-trunk-200812150100]# make
[root@ibm ~/nagios-plugins-trunk-200812150100]# make install

try again …

[root@ibm /usr/local/nagios/libexec]# ./check_ping -H titik.org -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5
PING OK – Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 244.31 ms|rta=244.309998ms;3000.000000;5000.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;80;100;0

Done !

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