check status values ... [was check_snmp - wrong status]

[Andreas Ericsson]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Ben Hyde wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 25, 2004, at 7:02 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>
>>>  '1' means warning, '2' means critical and '3' means unknown. Hyphens 
>>> won't be output.
>>
>>
>>
>> Unknown/3 is just what I'm looking for.  So I tried it.  Works great 
>> for services.
>>
>> If all the services of a host return unknown it appears to, quite 
>> reasonably, run the host check.
>>
>> A host who's check returns unknown is set to down?  I was hoping for 
>> it to be set to unknown.
>>
> 
> Hosts don't have the "unknown" status. It's either OK or BAD. Nagios 
> then calculates if it's DOWN or UNREACHABLE by checking the status of 
> the parents and children hosts.
> 

For a bit of clarification here; The host check_command MUST return 0 
for the check to be considered OK. Otherwise it's considered a failure.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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