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Dominique's avatar
Dominique
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4 years ago

Ping Failing from collector to device and back?

Hello I am getting errors:“VIPEIEEMP01 is suffering ping loss. 100.0% of pings are not returning, placing the host into critical state.” “The host VIPEIEEMP01 is down. No data has been received”   ...
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David_Bond
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2 years ago

ICMP is a terrible way for the Collector to determine “Host Dead” status.  Better would be if any DataSource is able to collect data from it.  If data can be collected, the host isn’t dead.