problem with check_disk.. returns state UNKNOW N

[Gerald Wichmann]

There must be more to it then that. Why do checks like load, # of procs,
current users, etc all work without requiring them to be on said system?
Furthermore the below output was in error. /dev/hda5 doesn't exist and
that's why my "manual" run was failing as below. With a correct device it
runs fine locally. I'm not sure how Nagios manages to run it from a remote
box though so I'm unable to test why the output comes back "unable to read
output".

Gerald Wichmann
Senior Systems Development Engineer
Zantaz, Inc.
925.598.3099 (w)

-----Original Message-----
From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:40 PM
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] problem with check_disk.. returns state UNKNOWN

PLEASE - no HTML mail

How do you check the disk usage of remote systems?  Nagios is not (yet)
all powerful. - plugins for local systems checks need to be installed
locally on every target system.

something is not right with the output below - RedHat with "df -Pk" should
output 6 columns of data not 5.

-sg


On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Gerald Wichmann wrote:
<snip>
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what the trick is to getting check_disk to work. It works on
> the box that has nagios installed but not on any others. Do I need to
> compile and install the plugins on all my boxes (I suspect not because
other
> plugins work fine. Notice total processes and load above)? These are all
> RedHat boxes running kernel 2.4.19-1.
> 
> I copied check_disk over to the box above and ran it from the command
line.
> It returned:
> 
> [root at ps-sm-poly-00 mailSend]# check_disk -c'10%' -w'20%' -p /dev/hda5
> Unable to read output:
> /bin/df -Pk /dev/hda5
> /dev/hda5              1035660     56168    926884       6%
> 
> Apparently therein lies the problem. Question is, whats the problem? The
df
> command seems to return what it's supposed to. Appreciate any assistance.
> 
> -Gerald
> 
>

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