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136 crt (remember when fixing stuff in the server room!)</para> 136 crt (remember when fixing stuff in the server room!)</para>
137 </section> 137 </section>
138 138
139 <section><title>Return the proper status code</title>
140 <para>See <xref linkend="ReturnCodes"> below
141 for the numeric values of status codes and their
142 description. Remember to return an UNKNOWN state if bogus or
143 invalid command line arguments are supplied or it you are unable
144 to check the service.</para>
145 </section>
146
147 <section><title>Plugin Return Codes</title> 139 <section><title>Plugin Return Codes</title>
148 <para>The return codes below are based on the POSIX spec of returning 140 <para>The return codes below are based on the POSIX spec of returning
149 a positive value. Netsaint prior to v0.0.7 supported non-POSIX 141 a positive value. Netsaint prior to v0.0.7 supported non-POSIX
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190 <entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry> 182 <entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry>
191 <entry valign="middle"><para>Unknown</para></entry> 183 <entry valign="middle"><para>Unknown</para></entry>
192 <entry><para>Invalid command line arguments were supplied to the 184 <entry><para>Invalid command line arguments were supplied to the
193 plugin or the plugin was unable to check the status of the given 185 plugin or low-level failures internal to the plugin (such as unable to fork,
194 hosts/service</para></entry> 186 or open a tcp socket) that prevent it from performing the specified
187 operation. Higher-level errors (such as name resolution errors,
188 socket timeouts, etc) are outside of the control of plugins and should
189 generally NOT be reported as UNKNOWN states.
190 </para></entry>
195 </row> 191 </row>
196 </tbody> 192 </tbody>
197 </tgroup> 193 </tgroup>