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Hello,

I need some help with the check_multi plugin. I found it as a very powerfull tool. This tool helping me to monitor all the interfaces of a network switch.
The child plugin (check_snmp_netint) generates critical when an interface is down (can be turned off but I do not want to) I would like to use the check_multi
state evaulation feature to ignore the errors of few serverices. Can somebody help how to do this?

Let's say I have 3 interfaces:
fa0_1, fa0_2, fa0_3.
fa0_3 many times changes its state from up to down (and back), despite this I would like to monitor it but I do not want to send alerts but
I want to send alerts about fa0_1 and fa0_2. So somehow I would like to ignore only this plugin's output from the check_multi's results.
I know it can be done with count(CRITICAL) >1 setting but is there other way to do it?

thanks,

klajosh2

Not really. I would suggest creating another check for the interfaces you do not want to alert/notify on. I agree that count is not a good solution because if the noisy interface is up, and a critical interface is down, the count will still show the check as ok.

Thanks for your answer! I came to the same conclusion.