invalid perfdata from check_icmp (patch)

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Mon May 12 12:50:44 CEST 2008


Wolfgang wrote:
> Somebody on the german nagios forum used a symbolic link (check_host) to check_icmp. In hostcheck mode the perfdata output of check_icmp is somewhat incomplete as no valid warning value is returned which leads to an error if using functions to process the values.
> 

According to the nagiosplugin guidelines, the warning value isn't required
in performance data output. A parser expecting to find a value there is
broken and needs to be fixed. Adding a false warning value to the plugin
itself is not the right fix.

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