[Nagiosplug-help] Helprequest about Plugin Return Codes

[Hendrik Baecker]

Hi Tony,

I know the guidelines, my question was: Why does the check_nagios Plugin
don't deal with these guidelines and returns exit codes like 0 for OK,
256 for Warning and 512 for Critical?

Anthony Montibello schrieb:

>as per the Nagios Plugin Development Guide:
>http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html
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>Plugins should return 
>0 for OK
>1 for Warning
>2 for Critical
>3 for unknown/execution error
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>Good Luck
>TOny
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>On 6/28/05, Hendrik Baecker <b00mer at gmx.net> wrote:
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>>Hi List,
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>at the moment I am writing on some tools for detecting an offline
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>>nagios
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>server when runnung two Nagios Server in redundance.
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>My plan is to
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>>write a little tool that executes a check_nrpe to connect
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>from the backup to
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>>the master to execute there a check_nagios.
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>My tool works so far that I can
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>>see the Pluginoutput and the exit code.
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>But I am wondering that the exitcode
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>>for a WARNING is 256 and for
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>CRITICAL 512.
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>As far as I remember the return
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>>codes for Plugins should be between 0
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>and 3, isn't it so?
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>I am
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>>using:
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>./check_nagios -V
>check_nagios (nagios-plugins 1.4) 1.25
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>The only
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>>hint I was able to find is the enum in the common.h.
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>I am not a programer,
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>>but if I understand the syntax of enum right it
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>should define exit codes
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>>integer from 0 +1...
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>Can someone tell me more about this?
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>Best
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>>regards
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>Hendrik
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