[Nagiosplug-devel] Writing a plugin?

[debby_ar at yahoo.com]

I believe that Nagios is looking for the exit code
from your plugin, and does not examine the text at
all.  The exit code should be:
0=OK
1=WARNING
2=CRITICAL
3=UNKNOWN

--- Darrell Mozingo <dmozingo at topechelon.com> wrote:
> I'm using NRPE_NT and I wrote a plug-in in for it C#
> to monitor an
> NT4/2000 eventlog but I'm a bit confused as to how
> Nagios picks up on
> the status of the check. I return either "OK",
> "CRITICAL", or "WARNING"
> and then the eventlog message as the return. Running
> the check from the
> Nagios console goes as expected, and it's set to an
> OK status in Nagios
> when it checks it, but when an error pops up in the
> eventlog Nagios will
> keep it as OK and put the error in the returns
> column as opposed to
> changing it to a CRITICAL/WARNING state.
> 
> What do I have to return for nagios to see it as a
> warning/critical
> state? I thought it would just pick that out of the
> beginning of the
> string, but I guess not. 
> 
> Thanks for any help you could provide...
> 


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