Query regarding negate wrapper

[Satish Kumar P]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the quick response. Your solution has helped me. Timeout was the
real issue.
After increasing the negate plugin's timeout, it is working properly.

Thanks & Regards,
  Satish Kumar P

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <dermoth at aei.ca>
wrote:

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> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been trying to test and implement the negate wrapper in our
> > Nagios environment. It has worked successfully with all (except one) of
> > the plugins. 'negate' is not working as expected when I try to use with
> > check_http (with -u <URL> argument especially). When I actually run the
> > negate wrapper with check_http plugin against a web server (enabled with
> > SSL), it doesn't negate the state returned (only when the web server is
> > down).
> >
> > When the web server is down (connect to socket times out) and check_http
> > plugin actually returns STATE_CRITICAL with time out error. But when
> > negate wrapper is used, surprisingly it doesn't negate the output, but
> > instead returns STATE_CRITICAL. I have included the commands and the
> > output of the commands as below:
>
> Negate has a timeout option. Make sure it's higher that the plugin's
> timeout to catch plugin timeouts.
>
> Thomas
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