03-31-2011
EtherChannel interface ping pelicularity
I have few AIX servers in my data center, which have their EtherChannel configured to have a fat pipe (active/active) and a nagios server to monitor the server uptimes. Nagios server pings every server in the data center and we have pretty much every known unix flavor in this data center. When these AIX servers get pinged, sometimes, the percentage of packets returned are higher than 100% and nagios raises the warning flag and everyone gets up in tizzy as nagios setup is very vocal about emailing such incidents to the whole world.
Did anyone encounter such situation ? If you did, how did you deal with it ? Changing nagios configuration or ping plug-in is not an option as it is used for all unix flavored servers and none other than these AIX servers exhibit this behavior.
Thanks
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