Monitor Ping time too long

[doraemon0214]

Hi All,

This is my first post.

I have some question about monitor plugins as follow:

1. What type of the ping mode of the monitor plugins. (ICMP, SNMP or TCP)

2. Got very long ping time of my switches (circle in red), the brand and model of the switches are H3C S5600 series, but other network devices' ping time are reasonable (circle in grape) such as Radware Appdirector and LoadBalancer, Sonicwall Firewall. (Pls refer to the grahic)

3. I got an alert from cacti as follow:

Host Error : RMDS-SW01 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) is DOWN Message : Host did not respond to SNMP, UDP: Host is Alive

But the switches are working normally. Is this error caused by long ping time?


Would anyone have ideas on these?

Edward Lee

[TheWitness]

It's due to timeout or incorrect community string. Increase the SNMP timeout. Also, please be aware, monitor just reflects what Cacti see's. So, the settings are in the Cacti device.

TheWitness

[doraemon0214]

Thanks TheWitness. I will try to increase the SNMP timeout.

Edward