Bad newbie experience with Nagios

Hi List,

I am ashamed going to ask the question on Nagios list, so I decided I
could ask here as well, since we have people using nagios here already.

I have installed nagios-2.3.1, and nagios-plugins-1.4.3 on my 5.4-STABLE
box, via the ports. I believe I have read some very good documentation
after googling also.

I almost feel confident configuring it, but I feel so stupid that it's
not working as expected.
I have defined some services, but all I get tends to suggest that these
hosts are down, while for sure they are not. How do I solve the problem
of "CRITICAL - You need more args!!!", as that is what appears in all
the reports sent to the contacts?

I have manually tried running the commands, with the correct args and
the clue I get leaves me clueless ;)

For example, the check-host-alive command:

warta# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H 62.8.64.6 -4 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
CRITICAL - You need more args!!!
Could not open pipe:

Now I am wondering whether "check_ping" has a problem, and whether it's
the right plugin for checking if host is alive....

What would be my mistake if I used check_icmp command to see if host is
alive?

Well, what is the solution to "Could not open pipe", if any?


-Wash

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