CentOS + Nagios / network problems

[jvas]

Is anyone running Nagios or other network monitoring software?

I have Nagios setup on my Unix Shell acct to monitor production servers at another datacenter, but my "64" account does not seem to be able to handle pings, http gets, etc.

Every hour, my Nagios logs fill up with entries like this:

[06-28-2005 14:46:47] SERVICE ALERT: somehost;ping;WARNING;SOFT;1;PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 112.92 ms
Service Ok

[06-28-2005 14:04:57] SERVICE ALERT: somehost;xx.com;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds


John

[matta]

nagios runs just fine in a VM.. it's no different than with a dedicated server. The problem you see may be related to routing problems on the internet, unlikely though as our network provider has a RouteScience device that detects congestion on the internet and dynamically rewrites the routers routing table to by-pass the congestion.

I know from experience many users use their unixshell# accounts for the explicit purpose of offsite monitoring using nagios.