NIS check?
Stanley Hopcroft
Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU
Fri Jan 17 00:33:39 CET 2003
Dear Sir,
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:02:43PM -0700, Nelson, Ben wrote:
> The problem I see is that the current revision of check_rpc (1.3.0-beta2) is
> dependant on specific output of rpcinfo. If the actual output of rpcinfo
> doesn't match any of the scripts known, hard-coded output strings, then the
> default state is maintained. Since the default state is 'OK', you will
> always get an 'OK' if the script can't parse the output of rpcinfo.
> Doesn't
> seem like totally desireable behavior to me.
>
Much more desireable than 'CRITICAL': spurious alerts bring availability
monitors __quickly__ undone.
Suggest you change the default state to 'UNKNOWN'.
> --Ben
BTW, welcome to the world of heterogenous systems. Making code portable
is at least as hard as making it in the first place.
Yours sincerely.
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Stanley Hopcroft
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