Nagios dropping ICMP packets

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Published on 2012-07-03T07:24:46Z Indexed on 2012/07/03 9:17 UTC
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I am running a Nagios server on vmware 4.0 and every now and again during the day it alerts that some of servers cannot be reached via ICMP, clearly staging that a certain percentage of packets send are lost. This does not happen to all servers.

I know the servers are actually up, because I have done a parallel test from another windows box, just using simple ping and no packets were lost. I also now from the way we monitor out switch that no packets were lost on those particular ports.

Could anyone suggest a way to troubelshoot this further ? AT present this points to the nagios server itself loosing packets.

thanks

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