Excellent thinking. It turns out it's not the check-alive-command but the Ping service that had this defintion: check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60% Thanks SO MUCH! <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Tntteam <<a href="mailto:tntteam@free.fr">tntteam@free.fr</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, Maybe you get the warning from the check-alive-command : on your nagios core interface, is it the router itself which is red, or the ping service you made for it ? 2011/1/26 Sergei Gerasenko <<a href="mailto:gerases@gmail.com">gerases@gmail.com</a>>: <div><div></div><div class="h5">> Sorry if this has been asked 100 times... I keep getting Warning / OK emails > on one of routers that are checked with this command: > > command_line /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping -H '$HOSTADDRESS$' -w > 5000,100% -c 5000,100% -p 1 -4 > > I know the thresholds are too high, but let's forget about that for a > moment. > > As I understand the 5000 is the round-trip time and 100% is the packet loss. > The -w and -c raise a Warning and Critical respectively. The problem is that > the warning email I get lists the RTA as about 170 and the packet loss is > 0%. So, why are the Warnings triggered? > > Thanks, > S. > </div></div>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d</a> > _______________________________________________ > Nagiosplug-help mailing list > <a href="mailto:Nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net</a> > <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagiosplug-help" target="_blank">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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d</a> _______________________________________________ Nagiosplug-help mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagiosplug-help" target="_blank">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 </blockquote></div>