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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <<a href="mailto:dermoth@aei.ca">dermoth@aei.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <div class="Ih2E3d"> On 21/05/08 05:19 AM, Satish Kumar P wrote: > 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: </div>Negate has a timeout option. Make sure it's higher that the plugin's timeout to catch plugin timeouts. Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> iD8DBQFIM+1/6dZ+Kt5BchYRAmiJAJ9kOT681r9/VUod/4goIpVKvR1PsgCgxCBZ AznjgVhc8C9XiT9fpQ6wmvo= =ZDOE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </blockquote></div>