Negating a test

[Mike Diehl (Encrypted email preferred)]

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On Friday 25 June 2004 02:23 am, tom.welsh at bt.com wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> The answer is in your subject.
> Use the negate command in /usr/local/nagios/libexec to reverse the plug in
> output. I.e. check a bunch of machines for FTP and only get alerts if they
> are running ftp.

Doh!

Yup, this is exactly what I was looking for.  Now I feel silly. <grin>

Thanx,
Mike.

> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Mike Diehl
> (Encrypted email preferred)
> Sent: 25 June 2004 09:12
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Negating a test
>
>
> Hi all.
>
> I'd like to know the easiest way to check if a service is NOT running.
>
> For example, I want an indication if any of my servers ARE running ftp.
>
> What's the easiest way to do this?
>
> Thanx,

- -- 
Mike
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