Howto make Nagios send notifications if just output of plugin changes

[Andreas Ericsson]

Mikko Kaipila wrote:
>>You'll have to make your own wrapper or plugin. Nagios has no capability
>>to parse the plugin output text and it's only there for human
>>readability. Nagios relies on the plugin exit code for all of its status
>>determination.
>>
>>
>>>is that feature possible todo?
>>
>>Anything's possible ;) really though, there hasn't been much call for it
>>in the past.
>>
>>--
>>Marc
>>
> 
> 
> Ok, but Nagios has capability to parse the plugin output text because of
> stalking_options I think...
> 

Nopes. The stalking_options just makes it log blindly, which causes the 
status to always update. In 2.0 this has been changed so that the GUI 
always shows the latest output. You still can't get notifications for it 
just because the text changes though.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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