negate

negate v1793 (nagios-plugins 1.4.10)
Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Nagios Plugin Development Team
	<nagiosplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>

Negates the status of a plugin (returns OK for CRITICAL and vice-versa).
Additional switches can be used to control which state becomes what.


Usage:negate [-t timeout] [-owcu STATE] <definition of wrapped plugin>

Options:
 -h, --help
    Print detailed help screen
 -V, --version
    Print version information
 -t, --timeout=INTEGER
    Seconds before connection times out (default: 9)
    Keep timeout lower than the plugin timeout to retain CRITICAL status.
 -o,--ok=STATUS
 -w,--warning=STATUS
 -c,--critical=STATUS
 -u,--unknown=STATUS
    STATUS can be 'OK', 'WARNING', 'CRITICAL' or 'UNKNOWN' without single
    quotes. Numeric values are accepted. If nothing is specified, permutes
    OK and CRITICAL.

Examples:
 negate /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H host
    Run check_ping and invert result. Must use full path to plugin
 negate -w OK -c UNKNOWN /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -a 'vi negate.c'
    This will return OK instead of WARNING and UNKNOWN instead of CRITICAL

Notes:
This plugin is a wrapper to take the output of another plugin and invert it.
The full path of the plugin must be provided.
If the wrapped plugin returns STATE_OK, the wrapper will return STATE_CRITICAL.
If the wrapped plugin returns STATE_CRITICAL, the wrapper will return STATE_OK.
Otherwise, the output state of the wrapped plugin is unchanged.

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regarding use of this software. To submit patches or suggest improvements,
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