Problem to use negate plugin

The Noob thenoob06 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 14:50:54 CEST 2008


Thanks very much Marc, it works

2008/6/4 Marc Powell <marc at ena.com>:

>
> On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:05 AM, The Noob wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a problem to use negate plugin, I use theses commands:
> >
> > ./check_ping -H 192.168.0.1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 2
> > PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 4.97 ms
> >
> > ./negate ./check_ping -H 192.168.0.1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 2
> > PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 4.91 ms
> >
> > Why the plugin does not return CRITICAL ?
>
> It is. Nagios does not use the text of the plugin output to determine
> state but rather it's exit code. The plugin output is just for humans.
> After running the negate command above, 'echo $?' should return '2'.
>
> If you want to change the status text, the very latest version of
> negate in plugins-1.4.12 includes a new option for that but it has no
> effect on what nagios thinks the state is --
>
> # negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, --
> substitute)
>
> --
> Marc
>
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