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NMIS will try to make sure it's own fpingd.pl is running every time a collect or update is run if configured to use it (detailed below). If fpingd is not enabled or the loss value for the node to ping cannot be found in the fping status file nmis-fping.nmis or nmis-fping.json (on newer systems) then NMIS will run a ping of it's own. This code can be found in nmis.pl in sub runPing.
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