How to configure ping monitoring alerts to be sent out only when the packet loss above 80%

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Hello,

  • Icinga Web 2 version – 2.9.0
  • Used modules and their versions (System - About) - Monitoring 2.9.0
  • Web browser used – Firefox 90.0.2
  • Icinga 2 version used (icinga2 --version) – 2.12.4-1
  • PHP version used (php --version) – PHP Version 7.1.30
  • Server operating system and version – Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)

We primarily use icinga web 2 for ping monitoring, Is there a way to configure ping monitor alerts to be sent out only when the packet loss 80% and above?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Balaji Sankaran

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Can you share your command and service definitions for your ping check?

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Attached is the command.conf(untouched since the installation), I have commented out all the lines in services.conf file, the following is the one of the hosts configuration from the hosts.conf…

object Host “hostname” {
import “generic-host”
address = “IP-address”
check_command = “ping4”
check_interval = 1m
retry_interval = 1m
vars.os = “Linux VM”

Best regards,
Balaji Sankaran
command.conf.txt (5.4 KB)

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https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-2/latest/doc/10-icinga-template-library/#ping

Set either ping_wpl or ping_cpl (depending on whether you want a warning or a
critical alert) to 80.

If you really are not concerned about RTT, set ping_wrta and ping_crta to
something very high (for example 30000).

Antony.

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Will try the configuration and update you.

Best regards,
Balaji Sankaran

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Yep, that should be the guiding light! We don’t use the default and for some reason I thought that the default had the vars already present :sweat_smile:

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That worked, thank you for the help.

Best regards,
Balaji Sankaran

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Thank you for the help.

Best regards,
Balaji Sankaran