NIS check?

[Nelson, Ben]

My apologies if I've offended you.  Mine was merely an observation and I do
appreciate the large amount of coding that has been done to make Nagios and
the Nagios plugins available.  Thank you.

I agree that making code that is meant to be cross-platform is difficult.  I
also agree that spurious 'CRITICAL' alerts can be annoying and really muck
other things up, especially depending on defined dependancies.  With that
said, I would suggest that the default state gets set to 'UNKNOWN' at the
source distribution as well as in my own environment.  If you would like
help (with the plugins project in general), I am willing.

--Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Stanley Hopcroft [mailto:Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 4:34 PM
To: Nelson, Ben
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NIS check?


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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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.
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