check_snmp not obeying warning/critical limits

[Goltz, Jim (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C]]

Follow-up to an earlier question:

> I'm using check_snmp to check an SNMP-addressable temperature 
> sensor.
[...configuration...]
> which should go to "warning" if the temperature is outside 
> the range 60-90
> degrees and "critical" if it's outside 32-118 degrees.

> But when I configure things "normally", Nagios reports 87 or 
> 88 degrees as a
> "warning" number ("SNMP WARNING - 88 degF").

The problem is, check_snmp also returns a warning state if (a) there's any
output on stderr or (b) there's any problem closing the child process.  I
modified check_snmp not to do this as a stopgap measure, and it works fine
now.

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James P. Goltz (jgoltz at mail.nih.gov)
 


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