I think you misunderstand. Those two plugins return WARNING or CRITICAL if one of the two things occur:<div><br></div><div>1) If the <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">ciscoEnvMonTemperatureState is not "normal".</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">2) If the passed -w and -c values are less than ciscoEnvMonTemperatureStatusValue.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">What I'm asking is why #2 is _required_. I can understand it as an optional check if you want to override the device's defaults, but not as mandatory behavior. Cisco devices are smart and know when they're warm or hot. That's the purpose of the ciscoEnvMonTemperatureState. I'm just trying to find out why folks feel that overriding Cisco's defaults is necessary behavior.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Thanks,</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Jeffrey.<br></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:05 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@catsnest.co.uk">mail@catsnest.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div></div>I maybe misunderstanding you here but isn’t the whole point of running<br>
Nagios checks to return Normal, Warning or Critical, so you can alert<br>
agents them?<br>
What would be the point in just returning the value and doing nothing with it?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Rithcie<br><br></blockquote></div></div>