check for the absence of a service

[Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)]

Use the negate plugin to reverse a check

Jonathan Wheeler 
e-Science Centre 
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kyle Dippery [mailto:kyle at engr.uky.edu]
> Sent: 09 July 2009 16:08
> 
> Is there an easy way to use nagios to check for the absence of a
> service?
> 
> I want to have nagios monitor SMTP and a few other services on hosts
> that aren't supposed to be running them, and tell me if they
> suddenly get turned on.
> 
> Is there a plugin for this, or a way to trick an existing plugin to
> make it work?  I suppose if nothing else I can write a wrapper for
> check_smtp or check_tcp to swap the OK and CRITICAL return values,
> but it'd be much easier if someone else has already done it...
> 
> Cheers,
> Kyle
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