[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-1993363 ] check_procs times out on Solaris 10

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Bugs item #1993363, was opened at 2008-06-13 21:58
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Category: General plugin execution
Group: snapshot tarball
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: maemigh (maemigh)
Assigned to: Ton Voon (tonvoon)
Summary: check_procs times out on Solaris 10

Initial Comment:
I'm having problems with the latest snapshot of check_procs timing out.  The version is v1991 (nagios-plugins 1.4.12). This is using pst3 included with the plugins.

./check_procs
CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds

./check_procs -w 2:2 -c 2:2 -C nagios
CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds

I've tried sparc and x86 builds, both timeout:
Solaris 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sparc
Solaris Generic_127112-11 i386



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>Comment By: Ton Voon (tonvoon)
Date: 2008-06-17 10:23

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Sorry, misread your report. So are you saying that PS_COMMAND is not set?

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Comment By: Ton Voon (tonvoon)
Date: 2008-06-17 10:22

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Hi maemigh,

The issue is that pst3 times out as it is taking too long to query. We've
found this on a master host with multiple zones. Please try the snapshot at
http://nagiosplug.sf.net/snapshot as pst3 has been optimised to make less
kvm calls.

It would be useful if you could give us timings before and after the
snapshot.

Beware, we've recently found an issue where it can coredump if a process
disappears as it is trying to access it - a fix is due soon.

Ton

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Comment By: maemigh (maemigh)
Date: 2008-06-16 21:32

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Had time to do a little more digging.  This happens if the file pointed to
by PS_COMMAND does not exist.  There do not appear to be any checks within
spopen to handle a return code from execve in the event of an error.

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