Generic service rule

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Hello,

I can’t find anything regarding “generic string” rule, what is its purpose ?
I would like to set the return status of a check to OK if its output contains a specific string, it is possible in checkmk ?
Thanks
Regards
sebastien

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In raw it’s not available, which I have, but there is something called Service state translation in the other editions that can remap the state depending on the summary output.

If the service is a log, you can also go for processing the log in the Event console.

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Thanks Yggy,
I will make it a try. I was not sure that we can do that with service state translation rule.
Regards
sebastien

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is it working on other edition ?

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Here Service state translation is suggested by another user to do remap of the states, and also change the output of the check to give it more meaning:

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As far as I know right now you cannot change service state based on summary/output.

I would also like to see that functionality - there are checks that return “Always OK”, but sometimes it’s just wrong.
I used to rewrite some of them but it’s too time consuming to keep up with upgrades.

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