negate plugin problems

[jeff vier]

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 19:09 +0200, Luca Corti wrote:
> define command {
>     command_name    check-host-alive
>     command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c
> 5000.0,100% -p 1"
> }

That won't work - one double-quote at the end of a line will cause the
command to hang.

> define command {
>     command_name    check-host-not-alive
>     command_line    $USER1$/negate "$USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$
> -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1"
> }
> 
> I then set up templates for the hosts and the ping service to use check-
> host-not-alive as their check_command.
> 
> The problem is Nagios still reports the hosts as down. But I tried the
> check command from the commandline and it seems to return different
> values.

What is the output via Nagios? (what's in the far right table column in
the cgi display?)

> # check_ping -H 127.0.0.1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.10 ms
> # echo $?
> 0
> # negate "check_ping -H 127.0.0.1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1"
> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.20 ms
> # echo $?
> 2

Those both look like you'd expect, right?



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