Help!!! Zabbix uses fping6

[anan25vn]

Dear all,

I'm newbie on zabbix. I add item to check host status with icmpping.

I show log :

"fping6: Address family for hostname not supported"

It means zabbix use fping6 instead of fping.

How to force zabbix to use fping (ipv4).

Thanks

[dvb]

When I tried to patch fping to support the -S option, I ran into problems, mainly with the compiled binary only supporting IPv6 addresses. So, the patch would apply correctly and fping would build and install fine, but then I would get the message "fping: Address family for hostname not supported".

What I ended up doing was grabbing the following patch:

[URL="http://www.version6.net/patches/fping-2.4b2-src.dif"]http://www.version6.net/patches/fping-2.4b2-src.dif[/URL]

and then applying that to the source found here:

[URL="http://web.archive.org/web/20020212025025/http://www.fping.com/download/fping-2.4b2_to.tar.gz"]http://web.archive.org/web/20020212025025/http://www.fping.com/download/fping-2.4b2_to.tar.gz[/URL]

So, you might do something like:

wget http://www.version6.net/patches/fping-2.4b2-src.dif
wget http://web.archive.org/web/20020212025025/http://www.fping.com/download/fping-2.4b2_to.tar.gz
tar xvzf fping-2.4b2_to.tar.gz
cd fping-2.4b2_to
patch -i ../fping-2.4b2-src.dif
./configure
make
make install

I hope this helps.