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Werk #8996: check_icmp: minimum number of successful pings for OK status consideration

Component Checks & agents
Title check_icmp: minimum number of successful pings for OK status consideration
Date Aug 30, 2019
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.0.0i1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.6.0b9 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

In the previous version, failure to ping one IP address amongst multiples addresses led to a Crit status of the icmp service. This new feature allows to specify the minimum number of successful pings in order to deem the service as OK. This signifies that pinging one address successfully can be sufficient regardless of the number of failures for the other remanining addresses.

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