<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> ./check_ping -H hostname -w 3500.0,20% -c 3800.0,60% -p 5 That'll send 5 packets and average it (I assume anyway). It'll throw a warning if it's over 3500ms or 20% packet loss, and a critical of it's over a 3800ms response time or 60% packet loss. On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:30, barry maclean wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>I have a number of server which are connected to the main site via slow links. All I wish to do is ping the servers with a timeout of 3500ms. How can I do this? Barry ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.<A HREF="http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click">http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click</A> _______________________________________________ Nagiosplug-help mailing list Nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagiosplug-help">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagiosplug-help</A> ::: Please include plugins version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>