Allen,

For a given polling period, it is a failure of all pings that will result
in this status/trap.

If you have some servers that seem to give you this when they are actually
up, you may need to adjust the timeout and/or retry count.   I don't know
if you are on AIX or Windows, but with either, you can adjust both numbers.
Don't increase either by hugh numbers...a little goes a long way.   For
example changing retry from 3 to 5 for a particular server usually fixes
it.  You don't have to change the default numbers, you can put entries in
for just your problem servers that might be behind a slow or overused link.

that is something else to look at.   if you have a set that does this
together, do they have anything in common?   Do you have a particular
trunk, switch, router, cable that is impacting performance and causing slow
pings, but is not causing it to be down all the time.



Stephen Hochstetler              shochste AT us.ibm DOT com
International Technical Support Organization at IBM
Office - 512-838-6198 (t/l 678)       FAX - 512-838-6931
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