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Hello,

We have a web page that management wants monitored to make sure it is up and can be accessed from a particular application server. The problem is that this webpage requires a login and the Powers That Be don't want to give the account we use for monitoring access to it. I thought "Fine, I'll just have Nagios check if a 403 error is returned."

Unfortunately, it seems that because it is an error code, Nagios insists upon reporting it as a Warning level problem even though it is receiving the expected result.

Here is the result: Any suggestions on how I can have Nagios return an OK result from an expected 403 page?

Thanks!

Yes, you can you the 'negate' plugin in conjunction with your check command. This docs explains how to do it: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

The Negate plugin allows for any standard plugin output to be reversed and is very useful with hosts or services that are expected to be in a Critical or Warning state but you wish to show them as OK. This function can be used for the opposite effect (i.e. showing a CRITICAL state when the actual state is OK)

Sweet! That worked! I used this command:
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