[Nagiosplug-devel] Working on testcases

[Garrett Honeycutt]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 22:20 +0000, Ton Voon wrote:
> On 4 Nov 2005, at 18:50, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> 
> > Ton Voon writes:
> >
> >> On 4 Nov 2005, at 17:58, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> >>
> >>> How about a flag to set the exit status in case of a failed lookup?
> >>
> >> What do you mean?
> >
> > --dns-failure-status = CRITICAL
> > --dns-faulre-status = UNKNOWN
> >
> > Then if a dns failure occurs, the user can set what they want the
> > exit status of the command to be.
> 
> I see what you mean now. However, using this technique would mean  
> that every plugin using hostname lookups would have to support this  
> flag and I'm not sure that is a good idea.
> 
> And then what if you get a different kind of failure? A malloc call  
> failure? A system call with unexpected results? A different flag for  
> each?

It could be a compile time option handled by the configure script. This
gives those who want to change it the ability.

> I'm of the Keep It Simple philosophy so I think we need to decide  
> whether "unexpected failures" should be UNKNOWN or CRITICAL.  
> Unfortunately, I think your suggestion will take us to some  
> complicated exceptions handling.

"my thought is that for most plugins (except the dns-related ones),
UNKNOWN seems a proper state.  chances are there's something
monitoring DNS that will issue a CRITICAL anyway.  however, i don't
feel to comitted to this opinion and would be interested to hear
the counter-argument." -sean

I would rather get false positives than miss something because the
status was UNKNOWN as opposed to CRTICAL.


> 
> Anyway, what's the default setting? :)
> 
> Ton
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