Service NOT running check

[Karl DeBisschop]

Ian Masters wrote:
> I'm sure that I've missed a basic premise about Nagios but I still can't for
> the life of me work out how to check that a service e.g. Telnet, is not
> running. 
> 
> Obviously I can check the port and get an alert and then acknowledge it. The
> Network Health then returns to all green. Is that the way it's normally
> done?
> 
> When I was using Big Brother, you could check that a service is NOT running.
> Is this not done in Nagios?

Use the negate plugin wrapper

-- 
Karl


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