check_ping

Use ping to check connection statistics for a remote host.

Usage:

check_ping -H <host_address> -w <wrta>,<wpl>%% -c <crta>,<cpl>%% [-p packets] [-t timeout] [-L]
check_ping (-h | --help) for detailed help
check_ping (-V | --version) for version information

Options:

-H, --hostname=HOST host to ping
-w, --warning=THRESHOLD warning threshold pair
-c, --critical=THRESHOLD critical threshold pair
-p, --packets=INTEGER number of ICMP ECHO packets to send (Default: 5)
-t, --timeout=INTEGER optional specified timeout in second (Default: 10)
-L, --link show HTML in the plugin output (obsoleted by urlize)
THRESHOLD is <rta>,<pl>% where <rta> is the round trip average travel time (ms) which triggers a WARNING or CRITICAL state, and <pl> is the percentage of packet loss to trigger an alarm state.

This plugin uses the ping command to probe the specified host for packet loss (percentage) and round trip average (milliseconds). It can produce HTML output linking to a traceroute CGI contributed by Ian Cass. The CGI can be found in the contrib area of the downloads section at http://www.nagios.org/