Additional states

[Ethan Galstad]

Any reason why the plugin can't return an OK state and approprate 
text message when no one's connected?  Or you could always use the 
UNKNOWN state to signify that no one is connected, and just suppress 
notifications for UNKNOWN states for that service.


On 22 Mar 2004 at 10:34, pa at broken-pipe.com wrote:

> 
> Has anyone worked on adding support for additional states to Nagios? 
> (Critical, Warning, OK, Unknown, Pending, ?????) I have a need for a
> "down, but not critical" type state.  
> 
> Think Dialup - I need to know when they're connected (green), but when
> they're not connected, it's OK. 
> 
> An example of this can be seen in Big Brother's CLEAR state.
> 
> I'd love to see this feature as part of 2.0...  But I'm fine doing it
> myself -- it just makes upgrades more of a challenge when it's not
> part of the original source.
> 
> Any input?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --Kurtis
> pa at broken-pipe.com
> 
> 
> 
> 



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
---
Email: nagios at nagios.org
Website: http://www.nagios.org



-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click