Custom Status Field strings and warning levels

[Izz Abdullah]

Ok...I guess I should have played around a bit more before posting.  The -w and -c switches work accordingly for the COUNTER defs.  Would still ask assistance in formatting the Status Information field.

Regards,
Izz

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> From: izz_abdullah at inbox.com
> Sent: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:53:43 -0800
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Custom Status Field strings and warning levels
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to format the data returned from check commands in the
> status information field of the GUI.  For example, I would like to add
> text after the check command has returned only an integer value, or
> another example I have brought up previously, divide the result by say
> 1024 to view in KB (when returned in bytes) or MB (when returned in KB).
> Any ideas?
> 
> I am using COUNTERs with check_nt (NSClient++) on RHEL 4 server running
> Nagios v3.0.1 with the latest plugins.
> 
> I have tried different combinations of the description field:
> check_nt!COUNTER!-l "\\Memory\\Available MBytes","%%.f Physical Memory
> Available"
> check_nt!COUNTER!-l "\\Memory\\Available MBytes","%%.2f Physical Memory
> Available"
> check_nt!COUNTER!-l "\\Memory\\Available MBytes","%%.f %%%% Physical
> Memory Available"
> 
> All of these return at least one percent sign, and no value, such as:
> %f Physical Memory Available
> 
> If I leave out the description field (check_nt!COUNTER!-l
> "\\Memory\\Available MBytes") then I get a correct integer value.
> 
> I would like the GUI to show (assuming a server / machine with 2gb memory
> and has available 1348MB:
> "1348 available out of 2048"
> or maybe even use a percentage of available as is in the built-in Memory
> Usage command, but
> this looks at the page file, not physical memory.
> 
> On another note, since I am using a large amount of COUNTER defs to check
> Windows servers, can someone tell me how to set the warning and critical
> in the check_nt!COUNTER! command?  Say the available memory in the above
> example reaches below 500, I want a warning, and below 250 a critical.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Izz
> 
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