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Had a strange one this morning:

Using ncpa to monitor Windows servers

Check interval: 6 min
Retry interval: 1 min
Max retries: 4

cpu/percent -w '97' -c '100' -q 'aggregate=avg'

Alert notification:

Service: CPU Load \State: WARNING
Info: WARNING: Percent was 100.00 %

My guess? The monitor rechecked four times in four mins. so if the average calculated was less than "100" for the four checks (say 99.9%) the severity would be a Warning, not a Critical.

Unless someone else has a better explanation, I suggested changing the Critical threshold to 99%

check_ncpa.py, Version 1.2.4
Nagios XI 5.8.5

Thanks!

Craig

Correct, it's comparing with greater-than compared to greater-than-or-equal-to.

Thanks, will ask to change the Critical threshold at 99 instead of 100 to resolve.

Craig

Great, let us know when we're okay to lock this up and mark it as resolved.

I think we are good to go, Thanks!

If you want it to be greater-than-or-equal-to you could pass the thresholds like this:
Taken from here:

https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelin ... HOLDFORMAT

Locking the ticket and marking as resolved.

Thank you!