Service Configuration Question

[Andreas Ericsson]

Karl DeBisschop wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:39:31 +0100
> Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:

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> 
>>Again, that's not what I said. But if the plugin can't fetch any data
>>at ALL (snmpget times out), it's supposed to return CRITICAL and not
>>UNKNOWN.
> 
> 
> That sort of depends - if you are checking the status of snmp, then yes.
> But say you are trying to find out if a disk is full, whether or not
> snmp is running has very little to do with whether the disk is full
> 
I totally disagree. If the plugin fetches disk status input from 
nsclient or nrpe (or snmp, for that matter) and can't get it, it's a 
critical error (service not running).
If it fetches it from the LOCAL server and can't get it, then it's most 
likely due to filesystem error (or a plugin bug, which we have to 
disregard for the sake of this discussion), which is definitely critical.

> --
> Karl
> 

-- 
Sourcerer / Andreas Ericsson
OP5 AB
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andreas.ericsson at op5.se


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