Service Configuration Question

[joerg.helmert at aracomp.de]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Andreas Ericsson
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:31 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service Configuration Question
> 
> 
> Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:39:31 +0100
> > Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
> 
> --[ snip ]--
> 
> > 
> >>Again, that's not what I said. But if the plugin can't 
> fetch any data 
> >>at ALL (snmpget times out), it's supposed to return 
> CRITICAL and not 
> >>UNKNOWN.
> > 
> > 
> > That sort of depends - if you are checking the status of snmp, then 
> > yes. But say you are trying to find out if a disk is full, 
> whether or 
> > not snmp is running has very little to do with whether the disk is 
> > full
> > 
> I totally disagree. If the plugin fetches disk status input from 
> nsclient or nrpe (or snmp, for that matter) and can't get it, it's a 
> critical error (service not running).
> If it fetches it from the LOCAL server and can't get it, then 
> it's most 
> likely due to filesystem error (or a plugin bug, which we have to 
> disregard for the sake of this discussion), which is 
> definitely critical.
> 
I agree to Andreas.
I use monitoring to know everything is ok.
If a plugin is not able to do its work, I do not know whats going on.
So that is CRITICAL for me.

The way the plugin gets its data doesn't play a role for me.
(local/snmp/nrpe/nsca/ssh or whatever...)

In above scenario you of course do not know if diskstate is ok or not, if
snmp fails.
But if snmp fails, something is wrong and that is CRITICAL.

> > --
> > Karl
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Sourcerer / Andreas Ericsson
> 
> 

Bye,

Joerg



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