[Nagiosplug-help] Inverting the sense of a query

[Israel Brewster]

On May 23, 2008, at 3:33 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote:

> I have a large number of systems on which I want to continually verify
> that telnet is NOT running. I can do that easily with Nagios by using
> the check_telnet plugin, but the systems with the correct behavior  
> show
> up as red rather than green. The ones which fail the test show up as
> green. This is a little annoying.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to easily invert the sense of a query? That
> is, short of editing and recompiling the query, creating a unique
> version, which I'm sure would do the trick.

the negate plugin (part of the standard package) should do the trick :)

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