Search Exchange

Search All Sites

Nagios Live Webinars

Let our experts show you how Nagios can help your organization.

Contact Us

Phone: 1-888-NAGIOS-1
Email: sales@nagios.com

Login

Remember Me

Directory Tree

check_fping

Rating
1 vote
Favoured:
0
Hits
109706
Files:
FileDescription
check_fping.tar.gzCheck fping
Nagios CSP

Meet The New Nagios Core Services Platform

Built on over 25 years of monitoring experience, the Nagios Core Services Platform provides insightful monitoring dashboards, time-saving monitoring wizards, and unmatched ease of use. Use it for free indefinitely.

Monitoring Made Magically Better

  • Nagios Core on Overdrive
  • Powerful Monitoring Dashboards
  • Time-Saving Configuration Wizards
  • Open Source Powered Monitoring On Steroids
  • And So Much More!
Fping check plugin from ae(at)op5.se.
Features / Improvements

- Includes the code from fping (in a modified state) instead of calling it and parsing the output.

- Takes care of 'Unable to parse ping output' and such.

- Fixes the 1 second maximum threshold value in check_fping, which was hardcoded in the fping source.

- Removes the ridiculous appearance of precision down to a millionth of a millisecond (0.1000000 RTA), and instead gives proper and valuable output in a sensible manner.

- Both check_ping and check_fping command line syntax works just fine, so it could be used to replace either one (-n and -p both denote number of packets to send).

Drawbacks:

Requires root privileges for raw sockets (if run setsuid it drops
privileges again after obtaining the socket). This is common to all ping programs though.

ToDo:
Parallellize packet sending. This requires a different packet identity encoding algorithm, as well as some manner of delay so that hosts don't think they're being flooded, so I'll wait a while with this.