<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>Questions using negate?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> I have a device on my network that I normally should not be able to reach so would like to use the check_ping to see if I can reach it. What it should actually do though is report as OK if unreachable and as DOWN if reachable, and negate sounds like it should fit the bill, but doesn't seem to be working. I don't know if I am doing something wrong or if it only works with certain plugins, but here is the command I am running: When I use the following line, I get a "negate: Unknown argument - w". command_line $USER1$/negate $USER1$/check_ping -H $ARG1$ -w 1000.0,100% -c \ 1000.0,100% -p 5 So, I try putting the command it is running in quotes (see below) and I get a "/usr/rest/of/path/negate problem - No data recieved from host" error message. command_line $USER1$/negate "$USER1$/check_ping -H $ARG1$ -w 1000.0,100% \ -c 1000.0,100% -p 5" I did update the plugins to the most recent version available, so a negate -V returns "negate (nagios-plugins 1.3.0) 1.5". Could anyone let me know what I am doing wrong? Thanks, David </BODY> </HTML>