UPS check SNMP not alerting

[Richard Savage]

Marc

Perfect, Many thanks have made that a lot easier.

Rich

Marc Powell wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:33 AM, Richard Savage wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a slight issue in that the check that i am using to check the
>> UPS  battery via SNMP is not alerting correctly.  Im running Nagios 3
>> with Nagios plug ins and NRPE.  This particular check is being run  
>> over
>> SNMP using the MIB for percentage of battery remaining.  As can be  
>> seen
>> below the Nagios front end is reporting OK even though the battery  
>> is at
>> 89%.  I have set the critical alert to be at 100%.
>>     
>
> Do you?
>
>   
>> Battery time remaining    OK    09-16-2008 09:21:18        18d 17h 14m
>> 35s        18d 17h 14m 35s        1/4        Battery Remaining OK -  
>> 89 %
>>
>> This is the command being used to get the percentage of battery  
>> remaining:
>>
>> define command {
>>        command_name    check_ups_minutes
>>        command_line    $USER1$/check_snmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C local -o
>> SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.33.1.2.4.0 -c 100 -l 'Battery Remaining' -u '%'
>>        }
>>
>> Surely this would mean that if the value dropped below 100% it would
>> alert?  Why is this not happening??
>>     
>
> An incorrect assumption. check_snmp --help (*emphasis mine*) --
>
> -c, --critical=*INTEGER_RANGE(s)*
>      Range(s) which will *not* result in a CRITICAL status
> ...
> - Bare integers are interpreted as *upper limits*.
>
> So you've indicated that anything *up to* 100 is not a critical  
> status. If you want anything from 0-99 to be critical, you'll want to  
> use this section --
>
> - If specified in the order 'max:min' a non-OK state will be returned  
> if the
>    result is within the (inclusive) range.
>
> $USER1$/check_snmp -H ... -c 99:0 ... should achieve that.
>
> --
> Marc
>
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