diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 42814e7..33597bc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ git clone https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh.git /opt/testssl
 
 ```
 usage: nagios-testssl.py [-h] --uri URI --testssl TESTSSL
+                         [--ignore-ids IGNORE_IDS]
                          [--critical {LOW,MEDIUM,HIGH,CRITICAL}]
                          [--warning {LOW,MEDIUM,HIGH,CRITICAL}]
 
@@ -32,12 +33,13 @@ optional arguments:
   --uri URI             host|host:port|URL|URL:port.Port 443 is default, URL
                         can only contain HTTPS protocol
   --testssl TESTSSL     Path to the testssl.sh script
+  --ignore-ids IGNORE_IDS
+                        Comma separated list of test IDs to ignore
   --critical {LOW,MEDIUM,HIGH,CRITICAL}
                         Findings of this severity level trigger a CRITICAL
   --warning {LOW,MEDIUM,HIGH,CRITICAL}
                         Findings of this severity level trigger a WARNING
 ```
-
 # Examples
 
 Checking a URI with default severity levels:
@@ -50,10 +52,10 @@ HIGH: secure_client_renego (VULNERABLE, DoS threat)
 HIGH: BREACH (potentially VULNERABLE, uses gzip HTTP compression  - only supplied '/' tested)
 ```
 
-The same URI, but skipping specific test IDs:
+The same URI, but ignoring two tests:
 ```
 vagrant@buster:~$ ./nagios-testssl.py --testssl /opt/testssl/testssl.sh \
-  --uri https://www.geant.org --skip-ids BREACH,secure_client_renego
+  --uri https://www.geant.org --ignore-ids BREACH,secure_client_renego
 OK: No issues found for https://www.geant.org with severity HIGH or higher.
 ```
 
diff --git a/nagios-testssl.py b/nagios-testssl.py
index c5e97fc..4fca9c1 100755
--- a/nagios-testssl.py
+++ b/nagios-testssl.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def nagios_exit(message, code):
     parser.add_argument('--uri', help='host|host:port|URL|URL:port.'
             'Port 443 is default, URL can only contain HTTPS protocol', required=True)
     parser.add_argument('--testssl', help='Path to the testssl.sh script', required=True)
-    parser.add_argument('--skip-ids', help='Comma separated list of IDs to skip from the result', default='')
+    parser.add_argument('--ignore-ids', help='Comma separated list of test IDs to ignore', default='')
     parser.add_argument('--critical', help='Findings of this severity level trigger a CRITICAL',
             choices=severities.keys(), default='CRITICAL')
     parser.add_argument('--warning', help='Findings of this severity level trigger a WARNING', 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def nagios_exit(message, code):
     testssl = args.testssl
     critical = args.critical
     warning = args.warning
-    skip_ids = args.skip_ids.split(',')
+    ignore_ids = args.ignore_ids.split(',')
     # trailing_args = args.trailing_args
     # pprint(args)
 
@@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ def nagios_exit(message, code):
     # Filter out only supported severity levels
     r = [x for x in r if x['severity'] in severities.keys()]
 
-    # Filter out skip_ids
-    r = [x for x in r if x['id'] not in skip_ids]
+    # Filter out ignore_ids
+    r = [x for x in r if x['id'] not in ignore_ids]
 
     # Add integer severity level
     for item in r: