[Nagiosplug-devel] more potential bugs in 1.4.0alpha1/check_fping (won't time out critical or warning thresholds ...)

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Folks,

The check_fping distributed with the 1.4.0alpha1 nag plugins behaves
like

tsitc# ../libexec/check_fping.orig_bad -Hper1 -w 55,5% -c 99,100% -n 4
-v
/usr/local/sbin/fping -b 56 -c 4 per1
per1 : [0], 84 bytes, 111 ms (111 avg, 0% loss)
per1 : [1], 84 bytes, 110 ms (111 avg, 0% loss)
per1 : [2], 84 bytes, 111 ms (111 avg, 0% loss)
per1 : [3], 84 bytes, 111 ms (111 avg, 0% loss)

per1 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 4/4/0%, min/avg/max = 110/111/111
FPING OK - per1 (loss=0%, rta=111.000000 ms)|loss=0%;5;100;0;100
rta=111000us;55000000;99000000;0
tsitc# 

I expected this warn or fail since the thresholds are both below the
RTA.

It looks from the numbers on the right of the plugin output that
milli-seconds are being interpreted as seconds (==> 55, 000, 000 uSec
instead of 55, 000 uSec).

The versions of plugins and platform are as posted before (OK if 0
packets transmitted.).

Any FMs to read will be read with relish if this is pilot error
(reverting to check_ping with regret).

Yours sincerely.


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Stanley Hopcroft
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