Writing own plugins

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of A Cline
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 4:03 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Writing own plugins
> 
> We're writing some Windows plugins using VBscript and nrpe_nt.
> Everything seems to work great but when the plugin goes into a
> "Warning" or "Critical" state, Nagios doesn't seem to pick that up.  I
> thought that nagios keyed off of the WARNING or CRITICAL or OK verbage
> that is common in most of the output of the other plugins.  Is this
> correct or is there some other mechanism that nagios uses to determine
> if things are in a Warning or Critical state?
> 

Nagios only looks at the exit code of the program to determine state. 

http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#AEN75

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Marc


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