Adding a WARNING state for hosts

[Laurent Chauvirey]

Hi

Currently in Nagios, the status of a host can be UP, DOWN, or
UNREACHABLE. I think this would be a good idea to add a WARNING state.
Imagine a host equipped with more than one ethernet interface (or even
another type of interface, such as a high-speed interconnect which you
can ping), and only one of its interfaces is failing. How would you
report this situation with the host status ? The host still can be
accessed, so it is not DOWN or UNREACHABLE, but the failing interface
has to be reported to the admin.

I know it can be done with a ping service for each interface, but I
think that putting ping as a service is not the good way to do it: what
the check-host-alive command would consist in then ?

Thanks

-- 
Laurent Chauvirey
Clusters HPC Linux IA-32/IA-64
Open Software R&D -- Bull SA


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