check_http and regular expressions

[Marc Powell]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Masoud Tabrizi wrote:

> I am running the command as you suggested but it seems like there is  
> something missing; what am I doing wrong?

Nothing, you just don't know how nagios determines status. It's not  
the plugin text output, that's just for humans. Nagios determines OK,  
CRITICAL, etc from the exit code of the plugin.

> All commans are run from /usr/lib/nagios/plugins directory;
>
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -H xxxxx -u /sample/test.html -p  
> 80 –a user:password -s TAPE
> Response:
> HTTP OK HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 0.018 second response time | 
> time=0.018116s;;;0.000000 size=3648B;;;0

echo $?  - should be 0

> Now I run it with negate as you suggested:
> ./negate /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -H xxxxx -u /sample/ 
> test.html -p 80 –a user:password -s TAPE
> HTTP OK HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 0.006 second response time | 
> time=0.006001s;;;0.000000 size=3648B;;;0

echo $? - should be 2

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Marc
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