Howto make Nagios send notifications if just output of plugin changes

Mikko Kaipila mikko.kaipila at nic.fi
Fri Aug 26 17:15:03 CEST 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 07:40 -0700, Jason Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 05:10:03PM +0300, Mikko Kaipila wrote:
> > Ok, but Nagios has capability to parse the plugin output text because of
> > stalking_options I think...
> stalking just tells it to *log* every change in output, but it
> doesn't trigger any actions. Nagios doesn't parse the output
> text ever, just record it.
> 
> -Jason Martin

Ok, I made the plugin which is now smarter :) That changes exit value if
text output changes...

btw, how Nagios create availibilty report (%)? Is that percent value (by
desired timeperiod) of different states duration of some service - or
what?

 



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