nsclient changing service down state

[Terry]

Oh, ya, good catch.  Appreciate the responses.


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <dermoth at aei.ca> wrote:
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> On 10/11/09 05:53 PM, Terry wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>>> On Nov 10, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Terry wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have a simple check set up to check a windows service using
>>>> nsclient++.  It works great.  However, I want it to go to a warning
>>>> state when a service is stopped, not critical:
>>>> -sh-3.2$ /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H host -t 50 -c
>>>> checkServiceState -a ShowAll MSSQLSERVER=started
>>>> CRITICAL: MSSQLSERVER: stopped (critical)
>>>> -sh-3.2$ echo $?
>>>> 2
>>>>
>>>> Again, I don't want it to ALWAYS be warning, just not be critical.
>>> If you always want CRITICAL to be changed to WARNING for this test,
>>> you could use the negate plugin.
>>>
>>>  ./negate --help
>>> negate v1859 (nagios-plugins 1.4.11)
>>> Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Nagios Plugin Development Team
>>>        <nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>>>
>>> Negates the status of a plugin (returns OK for CRITICAL and vice-versa).
>>> Additional switches can be used to control which state becomes what.
>>>
>>>
>>> Usage:negate [-t timeout] [-owcu STATE] <definition of wrapped plugin>
>>>         [snippage]
>>>  -c,--critical=STATUS
>>>
>>>     STATUS can be 'OK', 'WARNING', 'CRITICAL' or 'UNKNOWN' without
>>> single
>>>     quotes. Numeric values are accepted. If nothing is specified,
>>> permutes
>>>     OK and CRITICAL.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Marc
>>
>>
>> [root at omajelut01 plugins]# /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/negate -c WARNING
>> /usr/lib64//nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H host -t 50 -c
>> checkServiceState -a ShowAll MSSQLSERVER=started
>> CRITICAL: MSSQLSERVER: stopped (critical)
>> [root at omajelut01 plugins]# echo $?
>> 1
>>
>> The plugin still says CRITICAL but as you can see will actually
>> register as a warning.  Perfect.  Thanks!
>
> Since 1.4.12 you can use -s (--substitute) to change the status text as
> well.
>
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> Thomas
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