Hi Sean, On Wednesday 20 August 2008 19:22, sean finney wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 10:12:44 pm Jan Wagner wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 18:28, Cyril Bouthors wrote: > > > check_by_ssh returns STATE_UNKNOWN when remote host is "down". It > > > makes Nagios think the host is not completely down. > > > > > > check_by_ssh must return STATE_CRITICAL when ssh fails. > > actually, i don't think that is supposed to be the case. since it's a > service being checked *via* ssh, the state of the service can not be known, > therefore it is "unknown". a proper nagios config should have some kind of > host check (and/or service dependencies on check_by_ssh <-> check_ssh) > that detects when the host is down, which will return critical and disable > the checks of the service in question. > > at least, this is from my memory of the last time i saw this come up on the > upstream ml.
thanks for your 2 cents. Since this is the same argument which Alexander and I agreed yesterday on IRC, I would say that this is no bug. check_by_ssh is no real plugin, it is just a transport which can only deliver check results of remote checks, like nrpe. It can only report "STATE_UNKNOWN", cause it doesn't know anything about the remote check. With kind regards, Jan. -- Never write mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you have been warned! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT d-- s+: a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI- D++ G++ e++ h-- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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