in reply to Re: What did I miss in my test condition?
in thread What did I miss in my test condition?

My hope with the test conditions was that if $score was null/undefined (say from a timeout), it would fail the numeric tests, and trigger the undefined answer. Obviously that isn't the case. In the general sense $score should be a number and come up with an exit code of 0, 1, or 2, but I don't test to be certain the $score is numeric. Maybe that would be the preferred case, if $score is undefined, immeidately exit with exit code 3. Seems that is a good way to handle it, thanks for your insight! If you're ever in the NYC area, I owe you a beer! This code exits as I had hoped:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $radio = $ARGV[0]; my $warnrate = $ARGV[1]; my $critrate = $ARGV[2]; my $line = `/usr/bin/snmpwalk -v1 -c PTsnmp $radio .1.3.6.1.4.1.5454.1 +.40.2.4.0`; if ($line eq '') { print "snmpwalk returned nothing, timeout likely occurred.\n"; exit 3 } if ($critrate > $warnrate) { print "Make sure your critical value is less than or equal to your war +ning value.\n"; exit 5 } if ($critrate <= $warnrate) { my @values = split(' ', $line); my $score = $values[3]; if ($score > $warnrate) { print "OK, rf is $score. \|Mbps=$score\n"; exit 0 } elsif (($score <= $warnrate) && ($score > $critrate)) { print "WARNING, rf is $score. \|Mbps=$score\n"; exit 1 } elsif ($score <= $critrate) { print "CRITICAL, rf is $score. \|Mbps=$score\n"; exit 2 } }

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Re^3: What did I miss in my test condition?
by hbm (Hermit) on Aug 13, 2012 at 00:53 UTC

    I don't think $line will every be empty - you probably ought to chomp it, or test for non-whitespace.

    And you still have unnecessary tests in your if-elsif. For example, if $score is NOT greater-than $warnrate, it IS NECESSARILY less-than-or-equal-to $warnrate.

    Consider:

    use strict; my $radio = $ARGV[0]; my $warnrate = $ARGV[1]; my $critrate = $ARGV[2]; chomp(my $line = `/usr/bin/snmpwalk -v1 -c PTsnmp $radio .1.3.6.1.4.1. +5454.1.40.2.4.0`; if ($line !~ /\S/) { print "snmpwalk returned nothing, timeout likely occurred.\n"; exit 3; } elsif ($critrate > $warnrate) { print "Make sure your critical value is less than or equal to your +warning value.\n"; exit 5; } else { my $score = (split(' ', $line))[3]; my ($msg,$status) = $score > $warnrate ? ('OK',0) : ( $score > $critrate ? ('WARNING',1) : ('CRITICAL',2)); print "$msg, rf is $score. |Mbps=$score\n"; exit $status; }