[Nagiosplug-devel] check_nwstat: Feature requested

[Francois Pernet]

Hi,

Thanks Andreas...I'm glad to know that somebody thought about this kind of situations. Unfortunatly this plugin does not support this kind of feature so I would like to know if it is possible to implement it in the futur version (this could avoid me to create shellscript)...

Thx again

Francois

>>> Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> 18.01.2007 14:00 >>>
Francois Pernet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have Nagios installed and monitoring many netware servers. It works fine. However, in some cases, when server beocme really busy (CPU is 100%) the agent (MRTG.NLM) is not able to answer to Nagios through check_nwstat. In fact, the checks return CRITICAL status but with the following info : 
> CRITICAL SOCKET TIMEOUT
> 
> I know that we can increase the timeout but I would like to know (and I guess that should be the normal behaviour) the check_nwstat should return error code 3 : UNKNOWN in such situations. The advantage is that therefore, we can manage differently these knids of errors through notifications (for instance in order to not send SMS but only mails).
> 
> What is your opinion ?
> 

Some plugins accept '-T Unknown' (or --on-timeout=UNKNOWN) to do just 
that. I'm not sure if check_nwstat is among them, but it's definitely 
worth checking.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se 
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