Pings

PING checks if one or more host is reachable by standard ping command.

Configure

Additional parameters

This check requires additional parameters to define each mount point to be checked :

# conf.yml

ping:

  ping_vm1:
    host: 192.168.0.1
  ping_locahost:
    host: localhost
  www.google.com:
    host: www.google.com
  wwwtest:
    host: www.test.com    
  badname:
    host: www.averybadnammme_indeed.com

Alerts

This check sends an alert and adds alert fields if a mount point is not present.

Output to Metrology

This module sends one message for each mount point, with the following fields:

cmt_check: ping
+
cmt_ping: hostname
cmt_ping_status: ok/nok

CLI usage and output

$ ./cmt.py pings

Check ping 
cmt_ping               192.168.0.1  () 
OK                     192.168.0.1 ok

Check ping 
cmt_ping               localhost  () 
OK                     localhost ok

Check ping 
cmt_ping               www.google.com  () 
OK                     www.google.com ok

Check ping 
cmt_ping               www.test.com  () 
WARN                   www.test.com not responding

Check ping 
cmt_ping               www.averybadnammme_indeed.com  () 
WARN                   www.averybadnammme_indeed.com not responding