I would expect Nagios to return -1, or 3 for "system14;UP;HARD;1;(No output!)"

[leefitzg at aol.com]

I have a most perplexing couple of issues:
----  Nagios appears to be returning '1' and this is causing an 
erroneous system UP notification
-  seems like is should be returning -1, or 3  = UNKNOWN   which I 
would assume would not translate to system UP

date
mmdd hhmm ss
0203 0332 43 [1138966363] HOST ALERT: system14;DOWN;SOFT;1;CRITICAL - 
Plugin timed out after 20 seconds
0203 0333 03 [1138966383] HOST ALERT: system14;DOWN;SOFT;2;CRITICAL - 
Plugin timed out after 20 seconds
0203 0333 23 [1138966403] HOST ALERT: system14;DOWN;HARD;3;CRITICAL - 
Plugin timed out after 20 seconds
0203 0333 23 [1138966403] HOST NOTIFICATION: 
mtools;system14;DOWN;host-notify-by-mknotify;CRITICAL - Plugin timed 
out after 20 seconds

0203 0426 05 [1138969565] HOST ALERT: system14;UP;HARD;1;(No output!)
0203 0426 05 [1138969565] HOST NOTIFICATION: 
mtools;system14;UP;host-notify-by-mknotify;(No output!)

NOTE: I am using
define host {
check_interval                  1
...
check_command                   check-host-alive
}

define command {
        command_name    check-host-alive
         command_line    ....libexec/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 
6000.0,80% -c 15000.0,100% -p 1 -t 20
}

Any suggestions would be appreciated

-Lee


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