Soft states skipped in reports

[Ethan Galstad]

On 5 Jan 2005 at 14:22, Strickland, Kristian wrote:

> Hi to all, and Happy New Year.
> 
> On 2004-12-13 22:26, Ethan Galstad wrote:
> 
> > I"ll check into modifying the code to do this during the 2.0 beta
> > process, but I"m not convinced I want to muddle with the CGIs much
> > anymore unless there are real bugs.
> 
> On the nagios-users list, there's a thread that points out a bug that
> affects the "Service State Trends".  From a post by Eric Bollengier:
> 
> ----------------- quote
> 
>  [1099042385] SERVICE ALERT: test;ssh;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;Connection
>  refused [1099042445] SERVICE ALERT: test;ssh;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;Socket
>  timeout [1099042525] SERVICE ALERT: test;ssh;CRITICAL;HARD;3;Socket
>  timeout [1099042715] HOST ALERT: test;DOWN;SOFT;1;CRITICAL
>  [1099042725] HOST ALERT: test;DOWN;SOFT;2;CRITICAL [1099042735] HOST
>  ALERT: test;DOWN;SOFT;3;CRITICAL [1099042745] HOST ALERT:
>  test;DOWN;SOFT;4;CRITICAL [1099042755] HOST ALERT:
>  test;DOWN;HARD;5;CRITICAL [1099042755] SERVICE ALERT:
>  test;ping;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL [1099042935] HOST ALERT:
>  test;UP;HARD;1;PING OK [1099042935] SERVICE ALERT:
>  test;ping;OK;HARD;1;PING OK [1099042945] SERVICE ALERT:
>  test;ssh;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;Socket timeout [1099043005] SERVICE ALERT:
>  test;ssh;OK;SOFT;2;TCP OK
> 
>  ====> BUG ssh is in CRITICAL HARD STATE, but OK is SOFT !!
> 
> ----------------- end quote
> 
> I've had this same thing happen to me, though with a different
> service.  The result is a 5 day 8 hour block of "critical" in my
> report unless I edit the proper log file and change the SOFT to HARD.
> 
> Either fixing the real problem OR including SOFT states in reporting
> would show the correct states.
> 

This problem should be fixed in CVS for the daemon now (my commit two 
days back).  I also added the option to include soft states in the 
trends and availability CGIs.  Please let me know if the CVS patches 
don't fix the logging issue, as I haven't had a lot of time to test 
them.



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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