Nagios Question

[Brian Chabot]

Jim Collins wrote:

> UNKNOWN state implies the host is unreachable via ping from Nagios
> server. As failed ping could result from a network problem between the
> Nagios server and the host, to Nagios the true state of the host is
> unknown.

Thank you!

I tried using ping as su - nagios and got the following error:
ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted

A  quick search found a fix:

# chmod o+s `which ping` && chmod o+s `which traceroute`

After this it all seems to work.

Thanks again!

Brian

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