On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Jason Frisvold wrote:

>       I'm currently monitoring an APC UPS via SNMP.  The return value from
> the query can mean a number of different things, but I'm only interested
> in one.  However, the check_snmp plugin seems to work the opposite way I
> need.  check_snmp will alert if a given value is not seen, rather than
> alerting if a given value *is* seen..
> 
>       I know I can use the negate plugin to fix this, but this causes
> misleading information to be left in the "status information" field.
> 
>       Is there a way to overcome this?

Wrapper scripts are pretty handy for stuff like this, but there's not
enough detail in the problem description to be much more specific than
that.

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