[Nagiosplug-help] Questions using negate?

[Rose David]

Thank you for your response and input.  I have now used your script and it
has gotten me farther along than I have been able to this point.  Here is
the catch.  When I run this on the command line, it works just as
advertised, switching the return codes from 2 to 0 or from 0 to 2.  However,
when I run it in nagios as a command, either a Critical or an OK state on
the check_ping shows up as OK.  Using the same command, I get the following
two results:

Status		Status Information
OK			CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds  
OK			PING OK - Packet loss = 20%, RTA = 245.95 ms 

Any further input as to what I might do to get this to work?



> We re-wrote negate as a simple perl script.  I have tried your
> check_ping input with my version of negate and here is what I get:
> 
> 
> root at lxxxx:[/home/nagios/etc]: /home/nagios/libexec/new-negate
> /home/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H auspap01 -w 1000.0,100% -c
> 1000.0,100% -p 5
> Command is: /home/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H host01 -w 
> 1000.0,100% -c
> 1000.0,100% -p 5PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 4.62 ms
> Return code is 0
> root at lapin:[/home/nagios/etc]: echo $?
> 2
> 
> The first return code is the actual return from the check_ping plugin,
> the second $? output is the negated output.  Since check_ping produces
> multiple return codes depending on the result, it is 
> difficult to use a
> generic negate plugin.  I have included our version of the plugin
> "new-negate.  Hope this helps..
> 
> Good luck
> 
> 
> John Cockerham
> Sr. Network Administrator
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