Re: [xymon] beta3 ping test

[Roland Soderstrom <rolands (at) logicaltech.com.au>]

Hi,

Why is the configure then allowing me to use /usr/sbin/ping?
It even tests it and acknowledge it is working.
Maybe a text explaining this in the configure file would be nice.

I'll change to xymonping.

- Roland



On 30/11/10 09:47 AM, Henrik Størner wrote:
> In<4CF42BA4.7090309 (at) logicaltech.com.au>  Roland Soderstrom<rolands (at) logicaltech.com.au>  writes:
>
>    
> > I installed the beta3 in my test env. and conn is always red for all
> > hosts. (all Solaris 9/10)
> > I choose to use Solaris /usr/sbin/ping as the "FPING" bin when I
> > conf/compiled, nothing complained.
> > Running manually works OK.
> >      
> You cannot just use any "ping" tool - it has to be xymonping- or
> fping-compatible. The default Solaris "ping" is not.
>
> Xymon expects a ping tool that will accept a list of IP-adresses
> to check on stdin, and writes the result on stdout in the form
>    172.16.10.100 is alive (0.03 ms)
> or
>    172.16.10.38 is unreachable
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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