Howto make Nagios send notifications if just output of plugin changes

[Lee Ball]

I've seen a problem with availability reports. The total % seems to 
include some undetermined time.

For example if I ran an availability report for the last 24 hours where 
the host was only setup to be monitored 12 hours ago I'll have 50% 
undetermined and it seems like the host only has lets say a 47% UP 
status and maybe 3% Critical and 50% Undetermined.

It doesn't become a problem I think after the initial 24 hours.

Mikko Kaipila wrote:
> 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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