Nagios Support Forum

Is there a way to introduce a third threshold when monitoring CPU,MEM,DISK, etc...?

For example I want Warning, High, Critical?

Thanks,

Nagios doesn't recognize a "High" state, only OK, Warning, Critical, and Unknown. You can do basically anything you want with plugins threshold-wise, as long as they stick to the 0/1/2/3 exit codes for the aforementioned states.

Thanks for the reply. Can you give an example of how I would use the cpu plugin for example to have an additional threshold?

I guess I should clarify my last statement. A plugin you write yourself can have whatever arguments you want it to have, but Nagios still only uses OK/Warn/Crit/Unknown states. The standard Nagios plugins won't have a "High" threshold and it wouldn't make sense for them to do so since it would need to either be lumped into Warn or Crit or ignored entirely.

Thanks for the clarifications. Makes sense!