[Nagiosplug-devel] Working on testcases

[Ton Voon]

On 7 Nov 2005, at 12:20, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> I'd just like to point out that this is in no way incompatible with  
> the "transport error" service-status, since nagios by default sets  
> all out-of-bounds return codes to UNKNOWN.
>

Andreas,

Just trying to make your suggestion clear: are you proposing  
"transport error" as another status from the plugins, but one that  
Nagios will (currently) support because it will map it onto UNKNOWN?

I'm against adding another state unless absolutely necessary. I don't  
think there is sufficient difference between UNKNOWN and  
TRANSPORT_ERROR.

And while I agree with the idea of "transport errors", I'm not sure  
if we agree on the concept. In your previous email, you said "UNKNOWN  
can be used for user-error only", but then you contradicted yourself  
by saying when "a dns fails, the service *is* UNKNOWN".

I wonder if the word "UNKNOWN" is causing problems. Maybe "OTHER"  
makes more sense meaning "any other failure to stop analysis of the  
service".

Any other opinions? This feels like it could be a big change that  
could impact how Nagios works so I want to make sure this is the  
right route to go.

Ton


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