[Nagiosplug-help] Questions using negate?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

There was a recent patch applied on negate - you might want to grab the 
latest version of negate from CVS...

-sg

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Rick . wrote:

> 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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