On 26/02/09 12:06, Lee Azzarello wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Klaus Umbach > <treibh...@sozial-inkompetent.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem with unstable lines and/or machines under stress. > > > > Sometimes they just don't reply on nrpe, but are still working, so I get a > > lot of false alarms. Is it possible, to tell check_nrpe to exit with a > > warning instead of critical? > > I believe that a state of "socket timeout" will always be flagged as > "critical", though you can increase the max_check_attempts so it won't > throw a notification so soon if you know of false positives.
Sometimes these periods last for a an hour so, on some machines it's because of shitty connections to another continent or in countries with unstable infrastructure. > Of course figuring out the cause of your false positives is probably > the better solution. Most of time I know the cause, but it is not solvable in a cheap way :-) The relevant services are still working, but if the monitored values pass the thresholds, I want to know it, not if connection fails. Cheers Klaus -- BOFH excuse #159: Stubborn processes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null