[Nagiosplug-devel] Working on testcases

[John P. Rouillard]

In message <08AB1E2F-6783-47ED-B15C-BDD745DB345B at altinity.com>,
Ton Voon writes:
>My "bad" scenario:
>
>   - Nagios configured to alert on critical/warning - but not unknown  
>- for a check_http on wiki.internal.company.com
>   - Nagios also configured for critical on check_dns to check  
>nameserver, but not specific wiki.internal.company.com record
>   - Someone deletes the DNS entry for wiki.internal.company.com by  
>mistake
>   - Nagios says check_dns is okay (nameserver still running)
>   - check_http on wiki.internal.company.com returns UNKNOWN because  
>cannot resolve hostname
>   - however, no alert. Sys admin gets b0ll0cked for not spotting  
>problem :(
>
>Three ways to fix at the configuration level:
>   - check_http against IP address, but then removes point of DNS
>   - alert on unknown, but then what's the point of unknown?
>   - for each hostname used, configure a check_dns for it. But that  
>sounds like a huge (and unobvious) overhead

How about a flag to set the exit status in case of a failed lookup?

>Am I worrying too much?

No, I don't think so.

				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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