current_state value in status.dat file

[Giacomo Montagner]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:57:08 +0800
Rai Ricafrente <maillist at ricafrente.com> wrote:

> I am looking at the status.dat file and I noticed that the current_state is
> =1 even when the host is down and is in critical state. I assume that if a
> host is down, the current_state should be =2.

It's probably because hosts can be in only 3 states: 

UP=0
DOWN=1
UNREACHABLE=2 (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/networkreachability.html)

Giacomo



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