Werk #1409: Extended Check_MK-API: check function may return None
| Component | Checks & agents | ||||||||||||||||||
| Title | Extended Check_MK-API: check function may return None | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Sep 30, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Prominent Change | ||||||||||||||||||
| Class | New Feature | ||||||||||||||||||
| Compatibility | Compatible - no manual interaction needed | ||||||||||||||||||
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A check function may now return None (or simply end without returning anything). This will no longer create an exception but return state UNKNOWN and - depending on the type of the check - one of the following outputs:
Item not found in SNMP data
Item not found in agent output
This means that for the typical check that loops through the agent output looking for its item now does not need to manually do a
return 3, "Something not found in agent output"
anymore. This is now the default case. This has several advantages:
- You save some code in the check implementation.
- The output of the various checks is unified.
- A future Check_MK version can easily have a rule for changing the state in such cases from UNKNOWN to WARN or CRIT.