[Nagiosplug-help] Questions using negate?

[Rick .]

Hi,

I downloaded and tested this plugin, and i am having the same problem.

The plugin is always giving an OK, whether the negated plugin is OK or 
CRITICAL.

Does anybody know how to fix this?

Thanks,

Rick.




>From: Rose David <DRose at snyderdrug.com>
>To: Nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-help] Questions using negate?
>Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:38:13 -0600
>
>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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