Forcing a Service State to Recovery

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:20:26PM -0400, Victor Lanza wrote:
>    Basically what I have going on is, using the check_logfiles add-on I check
>    several application logs for specific errors, however if an error is
>    detected the service will go into a critical state and then on following
>    check (if no errors are found) will issue an “OK” state. What I want is for
>    Nagios to only issue a critical state and remain in this state. This will
>    force someone to actually look at problem and not wait for it to
>    automatically send a recovery alert. Once the log has been investigated,
>    then the user should force the OK state. I’ve looked into the “Disable
>    active checks of this service” as well as “Acknowledge this service
>    problem” but I find that these 2 do not satisfy completely what I’m looking
>    for.

The problem you're really complaining about, as near as I can rephrase
it, is that check_logfiles is level sensitive, and you want it to be
edge sensitive -- instead of "logfile contains this string" being an
error condition, you want "logfile just got this string added to it" to
be a red trap, and for managers to be able to send the green trap
manually.

I think this is a failing in the design of c_l, or at least it not
being designed for what you want -- which seems a reasonable thing to
want -- but you could also view it as Nagios being iffy on handling
trap type notices, as well, I suspect.

Cheers
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth                   Baylink                      jra at baylink.com
Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com                     '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA      http://photo.imageinc.us             +1 727 647 1274

	     Those who cast the vote decide nothing.
	     Those who count the vote decide everything.
	       -- (Joseph Stalin)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft 
Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 
http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null