icmpping timeout limit

[pmichniewski]

It seems that passing the -c3 option to fping, causes it to limit ping times to about 2 seconds. As I use Zabbix from binaries (Fedora RPM), I made a temporary workaround and modified the executable to pass -c9 which seems to extend the timeout enough to stop Zabbix from making false positives.

Would it be possible to customize parameters passed to fping? Right now they're hardcoded and this might cause problems.

[richlv]

it will be possible to customise several icmpping item parameters per item in the item key for zabbix 1.8.
actually, it is already available in alpha release of 1.7, so you are welcome to check it out