host status in nagios/var/status.dat

Aidan Anderson mail at aidananderson.co.uk
Fri Mar 21 16:38:29 CET 2008


Colin McKinnon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Having looked at what was avilable (NLG, centreon...) I decided to
> write my own front end for Nagios. This proved to be quite
> straightforward (except for sorting out the locking semantics in PHP -
> but that's another story).
>
> The only problem I'm having is that while the status reported in
> status.dat for services matches the output from the probe
> (0=OK,1=warn,2=crit,3=unknown) for hosts it seems to record a status
> of 0 for OK but 1 for critical (down).
>
> Is this the way its supposed to work? Or am I missing something?
>
> (Nagios 2.10)
>
> TIA
>
> C.
>   
AFAIK this is correct.  With services Nagios needs to know the actual 
state, e.g. Ok, warn, crit, unknown but with hosts all it needs to know 
is if the host is UP or DOWN hence 0 or 1.

regards,
Aidan


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