Fix for extraneous alerts + two development pleas
Michael Friedrich
michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at
Wed Jan 12 09:33:57 CET 2011
Hi,
Ton Voon wrote:
> Hi!
>
> A customer of ours raised an issue which has kept me busy for the last
> few days. The problem is that if a host is shutdown, there are an
> excessive number of log entries for the host's services in nagios.log
> (though not for the first service that invoked a host check). More
> details about the problem and the fix are here: http://bit.ly/gZUzlR
>
> I have added test cases to catch this particular problem - details on
> running tests are here: http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/Nagios_Core_Developer_Guidelines#Testing
>
> You can see the effect by reverting the fix to base/checks.c and
> running t-tap/ test_checks - this will fail for two attributes that
> were not being set correctly.
Thanks for the effort, much appreciated.
> I have two pleas:
> * Please add/request test cases for any new changes (where
> possible). This way we can build up a whole set of cases to measure
> impacts in future (I think handle_async_service_check_result() could
> do with a refactor but I daren't touch it at the moment)
Yeah that would be great - also regarding automated tests in tinderbox
or hudson (which is being used in opsview too as I have read) :-)
> * Please can we move off CVS - I cannot link to a specific change
> which makes it hard to communicate about specific changes
+1 as usual.
I'm currently using various git mirrors to source patches from, like
Andreas' http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios.git;a=summary (your recent
commit is missing over there btw).
Kind regards,
Michael
> Kudos to Andreas for the test-stubs.c file in t-tap/.
>
> Ton
>
>
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