monit not catching failed ping test
"Fant, Andrew (NIH/NIDA) [E]" <[email protected]>
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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
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Andrew Fant | Systems Administrator
[email protected] | Lei Shi Lab , NIH/NIDA/IRP
(443)740-2849 |
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