nsca-2.9 compatability

[Ethan Galstad]

Eric and I discusses this problem this morning and we'll be rolling back 
the MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH to 512 to maintain compatibility with older 
agents.

This is particularly important for Windows addons like NagEventLog, 
which will break with the new version of NSCA.

Look for a patch and a new release from Eric soon.

Ethan Galstad


Andrew Widdersheim wrote:
> I haven't looked at NRDP much more than you have but it sounds like it 
> would be a fix to many of NSCA's short comings. The problem for us is 
> the chore of switching everything over in one shot.
> 
> We don't do that much passively so the check results queue feature is 
> actually an extra bonus for us in the upgrade. We are actually more 
> interested in the longer output. If there is an easy way to make this 
> more compatible for with older versions than great. If not we can plan a 
> large upgrade of everything or a cut over to NRDP. We just have a 
> problem now and were looking for a quick solution without breaking 
> already existing stuff.
> 
> -Andrew W.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:38:44 -0800
> From: mike-nagios at 5dninja.net
> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> CC: awiddersheim at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] nsca-2.9 compatability
> 
> On 1/11/12 11:16 AM, Andrew Widdersheim wrote:
> 
>     I wanted to use Mike Lindsey's new features in nsca-2.9 but found
>     that clients on 2.7.2 were not able to communicate after updating
>     the server. I found this on the Nagios bug tracker:
> 
>     http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=78
> 
>      From what I'm reading it's not possible to have a client and server
>     compiled with different MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH. Has this been fixed
>     at all and I'm just not finding it? 
> 
> As far as I'm aware, there's no easy fix for this.  If you cannot 
> upgrade your clients, then you can recompile the nsca binary with 
> MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH set back to 512.  That should let you use the 
> checkresult directory feature, without breaking compatibility with older 
> clients.
> 
> I'll take another look at the source and see if any options jump out at 
> me, but I don't know how much effort I should put into it - I think 
> Andreas is actively working on a Better Solution.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Lindsey
> 
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