negate plugin

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Grab the copy from CVS - there was a bug fix post 1.3 release...

-sg

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Nate Allen wrote:

> Our network folks would like to be paged if an ISDN backup circuit becomes
> active, to alert us that something's wrong with the primary (and because the
> backup circuit is billed by the minute).  I thought I'd try to use the
> negate plugin to alert them when the circuit is 'pingable', instead of when
> it isn't.  I understand the negate wrapper is the plugin for that job.
> 
> I downloaded and built the negate plugin from the 1.3.0 plugin archive and
> put it with my other plugins (which are the 1.2.9 version packaged as part
> of the Debian unstable distribution).  However, I can't get it to work.
> 
> >From reading through the list, it's my understanding that the 'negate'
> plugin wrapper is broken in the version 1.3.0 plugins.  Is there a corrected
> version or patch available somewhere?
> 
> Here's an example of my output when I try it from the command line.  I'm
> using Nagios 1.0, again from Debian's unstable packages.
> 
> monitor:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins# ./negate ./check_ping -H 11.11.11.11 -w
> 50,50% -c 90,90% -p 5
> ./negate: invalid option -- H
> negate: Unknown argument - H
> Usage:
>  negate [-t timeout] <definition of wrapped plugin>
>  negate (-h | --help) for detailed help
>  negate (-V | --version) for version information
> 
> If I put the check command in quotes, as someone else suggested, I get a
> different problem:
> 
> monitor:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins# ./negate "./check_ping -H 11.11.11.11 -w
> 50,50% -c 90,90% -p 5"
> ./negate problem - No data recieved from host
> CMD: ./check_ping -H 11.11.11.11 -w 50,50% -c 90,90% -p 10 (null)
> 
> No data recieved from host?  Am I using the plugin incorrectly, or is it
> just bugged?  If it's bugged, is there somewhere I can get a fixed one?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help!
> 
> Nate
> 
> 
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