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From: | Fant, Andrew (NIH/NIDA) [E] |
Subject: | monit not catching failed ping test |
Date: | Fri, 8 Mar 2019 15:49:06 +0000 |
Good morning. I have a small monitoring setup with m/monit 3.7.2, using monit 5.25.2 as the agent. There are a couple of systems that I cannot install monit on that I still need to be aware of any downtime, so I
have added them as ping checks in the monitrc on the host where I installed m/monit. Yesterday, one of those remote systems went down, but monit and m/monit didn’t report an alert for it and still have its status as OK. Using anonymized information, the
entry in the monitrc on host1 is: CHECK HOST host2_ping with ADDRESS 192.168.1.2
IF FAILED ping THEN ALERT And from the command line on host1: host1% monit status host2_ping Monit 5.25.2 uptime: 48d 19h 8m Remote Host 'host2_ping'
status
OK
monitoring status
Monitored
monitoring mode
active
on reboot
start
ping response time
-
data collected
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:41:33 But: host1% ping host2 PING host2.example.org (192.168.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data. From host1.example.org (192.168.1.1) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From host1.example.org (192.168.1.1) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From host1.example.org (192.168.1.1) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable Clearly there is a disconnect between the OS-provided ping utility and what monit is seeing. I’m sure that it’s probably a simple error in configuration, but I am not seeing what I did wrong. Can someone
please set me on the correct path? Thank you --
Andrew Fant | Systems Administrator address@hidden | Lei Shi Lab , NIH/NIDA/IRP (443)740-2849 | |
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