[Nagiosplug-devel] Status UNKNOWN

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:58:21PM +0100, Micahel Thorsager wrote:
> Well.. I have created a plugin to check the status of Solaris Volume 
> Manager. I use the check_by_ssh plugin to run my check_svm on remote 
> machines and it works like a charm.

Slowlaris !

> But I have one server from witch the status in nagios is set to 
> 'UNKNOWN'  .. I just don't get it. I have run the whole check_by_ssh 
> command by hand as user 'nagios' and the exit code is 0 as it should be 
> and the text is as it should be but status in nagios is set to UNKNOWN.
>

My experience is somewhat similar. On a remote Solaris host , Nagios 
runs a ksh script developed by the DBAs to check DB connectivity. The 
check is run by ssh.

I found I had to redirect STDERR to /dev/null to get it to work 
properly under Nag; flawless from the CLI.

eg 
check_by_ssh4!120!db_check/db_check nonprod 2>/dev/null

 .. 

# 'check_by_ssh4' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_by_ssh4
        command_line    $USER1$/check_by_ssh -t $ARG1$ -H $HOSTNAME$ -C 
'$ARG2$'

YMMV.


 
> -- 
>  Michael Thorsager
>  http://www.krakow.dk

Hope this helps.

Yours sincerely.

-- 
Stanley Hopcroft

Network specialist, IT Infrastructure
IP Australia
Ph: (02) 6283 3189  Fax: (02) 6281 1353
PO Box 200 Woden  ACT 2606
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au
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