[Nagiosplug-devel] Anyone have experience with writing plugins in "expect"

[Harper Mann]

Did you run it as "nagios" on the command line?

Regards,

- Harper

Harper Mann
Groundwork Open Source Solutions
510-599-2075 (cell)


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nagiosplug-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andreas
Ericsson
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:48 AM
To: nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] Anyone have experience with writing plugins
in "expect"

Output is truncated to one line, so if there are any empty lines before
the output you want, Nagios won't see it.

Hsiu-Fen Hung wrote:
> I write the following plugin in "expect".  It runs sucessfully in shell,
but it shows "No output" when I integrated it with nagios.
> Can I write the nagios plugins in "expect" ?  If Yes, how to change it.
Thanks !
> 
> #!/usr/bin/expect
> spawn ssh -l xxxx xx.xx.xx.xx "/opt/ecs/bin/almsummary"
> expect -re "Password: "
> send "xxxxxxxx\rr"
> expect eof
> set output $expect_out(buffer)
> #puts $output
> if [ string match "*Yes*" $output ] {
>    puts "ACD:CRITICAL\n";
>    set exitstatus 1
> } else {
>    puts "ACD:OK\n";
>    set exitstatus 0
> }
> exit $exitstatus
> 

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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