NRPE startup problems

[Andreas Ericsson]

florian.beese at infoconsult.nu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem using lm_sensors with NRPE.
> 
> Everything is working fine unless I reboot the computers where lmsensors
> should be executed on by NRPE. When I reboot the machine everything seems to
> be well - the startup scripts initialize sensors and start NRPE (as daemon),
> but when my Nagios retrieves the info, the information becomes always cut at
> different sections of the output.
> For Example (output of 2 different computers with the same config): 
> output (PC1), when I (re-)start NRPE by hand:      SENSORS OK - temp1 +35
> °C: temp3 +33.5 °C 
> output (PC1), when its started up by init script:  SENSORS OK - 
> output (PC2), when I (re-)start NRPE by hand:      SENSORS OK - fan2 4326
> RPM: temp2 +19.0 °C 
> output (PC2), when its started up by init script:  SENSORS OK - fan2 4326
> RPM 
> 

This can't possibly be an NRPE problem. You should look to the plugin 
instead or the nagios gui instead. NRPE just feeds back the first line 
of output it gets, and only cuts if it exceeds 1024 chars.

> I even tried it at the command line and the output was the same, but the
> NRPE process seems to be running normaly. When I restart the NRPE process
> everythings working fine again until the next restart of the computer (as
> mentioned above).
> 
> I am using NRPE 2.0 with Nagios 1.2 and the plugin "check_sensors.pl" (by
> Matthew Kent) as I didn't really like the normal "check_sensors" plugin (if
> you'd
> like to see it watch this link:
> http://iramon.ir.funpic.de/nagios/download/check_sensors.pl).
> 
> I already thought about writing an init script which restarts the NRPE
> process after 10 seconds or so, but haven't tried that yet and in my opinion
> thats not a clean solution.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> kind regards
>    Florian Beese
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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