host status in nagios/var/status.dat

[Oliver Hookins]

On Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 15:38:29 +0000, Aidan Anderson wrote:
>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.

Kinda...

specifically:
 0 - OK
 1 - DOWN
 2 - UNREACHABLE 

-- 
Regards,
Oliver Hookins
Anchor Systems

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