event handler not working

[Eli Stair]

When you're not dumping STDERR to /dev/null does your script/binary 
output anything useful?  Try enabling some verbosity inside of it to see 
where/why it's failing.  It would be most useful to anyone else as well.

/eli

Billy Liang wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a newbie to the Nagios community. I developed an event handler for 
> Nagios, but somehow it doesn't seem to be working.  Here's the command 
> definition for the event handler:
> 
> define command {
>        command_name    fix_taosvcs
>        command_line    /opt/nagios/libexec/wpj/tao_event_handler 
> $SERVICESTATE$ $SERVICESTATETYPE$ $SERVICEATTEMPT$ $SERVICEOUTPUT$ 
> 2>/dev/null
>        }
> 
> If I ran the program separately such as the following, it works fine:
> /opt/nagios/libexec/wpj/tao_event_handle CRITICAL HARD 4 "CRITICAL Level 
> 0 - 0 warning[] - 1 critical[PbxCmdMgr/0]"
> I tried running the program as nagios user, and it works. So I don't 
> think it's permission problem. When I looked at the nagios log, it seems 
> to have called the event handler.  Following is the log:
> 
> SERVICE ALERT: linux05;CHKTAO;CRITICAL;HARD;4;CRITICAL: Level 2 - 0 
> warning[] 1 critical[PbxCmdMgr/0]
> [1134130290] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
> linux05;CHKTAO;CRITICAL;HARD;4;fix_taosvcs
> 
> However when the program run under Nagios as event handler, it doesn't 
> do anything. It's very perplexing.  I am running Nagios 2.0b3, I am 
> wondering if this version is too old for some of the macro that I used.  
> In order for the event handler to do anything meaningful, it needs to 
> have access to the content of $SERVICEOUTPUT$.
> 
> Any advise on how to debug this problem will be greatly appreciated. 
> Thank you.
> 
> Billy
> 
> 
> 
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