Echo nagios status?

[Paul L. Allen]

Jason Martin writes: 

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>> However, I still think Nagios is wrong in reporting stale checks as
>> critical.  This is a transport issue and I believe the correct
>> interpretation is that the service state is unknown.  But that's an other
>> issue. 
> Nagios doesn't know that a stale check is critical, it just forces a 
> service check. If you want stale checks to report their staleness, just 
> define a service check command script that does an echo w/a meaningful 
> report of staleness and have it "exit 3". 

Damn, I thought I'd done that. :(  Obviously I have an error there. 

> The only thing Nagios does (if freshness is enabled) w/a stale check is 
> force execution of a plugin. 

Yeah, I know.  So I created a plugin that would return a "this check
is stale" warning.  Looks like I screwed up.  Damn, I hate it when that
happens. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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