Problem to use negate plugin

[Marc Powell]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:05 AM, The Noob wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a problem to use negate plugin, I use theses commands:
>
> ./check_ping -H 192.168.0.1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 2
> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 4.97 ms
>
> ./negate ./check_ping -H 192.168.0.1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 2
> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 4.91 ms
>
> Why the plugin does not return CRITICAL ?

It is. Nagios does not use the text of the plugin output to determine  
state but rather it's exit code. The plugin output is just for humans.  
After running the negate command above, 'echo $?' should return '2'.

If you want to change the status text, the very latest version of  
negate in plugins-1.4.12 includes a new option for that but it has no  
effect on what nagios thinks the state is --

# negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, -- 
substitute)

--
Marc

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