icmpping case sample

[bee]

Hi @,

is any one out there could explain what is icmpping interval does in relation with item update interval.

Situation:
I have item name "ping check" which have interval update every 30 second. This item have "simple check" with key "icmpping[,3,30].

Question:

1. Does it will ping host 3 times? If yes, does it takes 90sec (in total) for this item check to be finish?
2. if the 2nd ping return 0 ( while 1st and 3rd return 1), what is the final value of that item? 1 or 0?
3. Should i set item interval update higher than icmpping interval?

Thank you!

[alixen]

ICMP items have new parameters

From documentation :

Zabbix ICMP items now are much more flexible. Item icmpping has gained the following parameters:

* target - host IP or DNS name;
* count - number of packets;
* interval - time between successive packets in milliseconds;
* size - packet size in bytes;
* timeout - timeout in milliseconds.

So it will take 90 milliseconds

Regards
Alixen

[bee]

Hi Alixen,
Thanks for your respond.
Any comment on the question #2? it will return 0 or 1?

Thanks,
BEE

[alixen]

Hi,

Any comment on the question #2? it will return 0 or 1?

Since the goal of sending several packets is to not declare an host down if only one packet is lost, I suppose that return value is 1 but I have not verified it myself yet.
Maybe somebody else can confirm it ?

Regards,
Alixen

[bee]

icmpping interval question, need an exact answer

Thank you alixen!

Anyone, any other comment? Should it return 0 or 1? Anybody could confirming it?

Thanks,
BEE

[hexes]

icmp ping doesn't work at all.
1st - tcpdupm doesn't show packets
2nd - i make bash script that logging all incomming params into text file, input it in zabbix server conf file instead of fping, and this file is empty, and i think that zabbix doesn't trying to run fping at all

i have try everything
icmpping[10.1.1.181,5,5,50,1000]
icmpping[10.1.1.181,1, , , ]
icmpping[ , , , , ]

What i do wrong? In zabbix server log there is nothing wrong...


9084:20110226:141039.174 Parameter [23438][3com3226:icmpping[ , , , , ]] became supported
after this i get in my log file:

cat ./fping
-q -C3 -S10.1.1.1
-q -C3 -S10.1.1.1
-q -C3 -S10.1.1.1
-q -C3 -S10.1.1.1
-q -C3 -S10.1.1.1
-q -C3 -S10.1.1.1

This is income params for fping BUT!
# /usr/sbin/fping -q -C3 -S10.1.1.1
/usr/sbin/fping: invalid option -- 'S'

[alexgari]

Still no response to question no. 2

Could someone answer question no. 2? We get false alerts from hosts connected to congested switches and the answer could help us reducing the number of false alerts.

[zymbioziz]

Could someone answer question no. 2? We get false alerts from hosts connected to congested switches and the answer could help us reducing the number of false alerts.

In case of checking availability with icmpping[,5,2000,512,10000].
At least one ping (request) should be successful to mark entire event successful.

Zabbix 1.8.3