format changes for check_disk and check_load

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, David Roberts wrote:

> Hi,
>  I'm having problems using Nagios 1.0 with nrpe (1.8) and the check_disk,
> check_load plugins.
> 
> Recently, I upgraded the plugins from:
> check_load (nagios-plugins 1.3.0-beta2) 1.4  ----> check_load
> (nagios-plugins 1.3.0) 1.6
> 
> and
> check_disk (nagios-plugins 1.3.0-beta2) 1.5  ----> check_disk
> (nagios-plugins 1.3.0) 1.7
> 
> It seems that the output formats have changed slightly causing my Nagios
> monitor to give error
> "(Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing)"

Code 127 - cannot find file or file doesn't have correct permissions.

> 
> For example,
> 
> check_load (1.4)
> load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
> 
> check_load (1.6)
> OK - load average: 1.56, 1.41, 1.34
> 
> check_disk (1.5)
> DISK OK - [28117 kB (76%) free on /dev/sda2]
> 
> check_disk (1.7)
> Unable to read output:
> /bin/df -Pk /dev/hda1
> /dev/hda1               964500    278548    636956      31%
> 

did you recompile check_disk for the host running nrpe?

> 
> However, I can run check_nrpe manually from the Nagios monitor system fine
> (at least I get the same output as by running it locally).
> 
> I think the problem is basically that these newer plugins provide an output
> that is too large for the Nagios cgi code to allow. Therefore, 1) is there
> some patch/config change for Nagios or nrpe to allow processing this output
> or 2) a patch to check_disk/load to provide the smaller formatted output?

The output is within the limits of Nagios can accept.

-- 

-sg



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