vmstat - custom plugin [CASE CLOSED]

[Neil]

I got it working guys. 

1. I copied /root/.ssh/id_dsa to /usr/local/nagios/libexec
2. chown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec/id_dsa
3. I modified my ssh to include -i /usr/local/nagios/libexec/id_dsa 

:) 

Neil writes: 

> hey guys,  
> 
> I wrote my own plugin for checking a solaris machine's user, system and 
> idle cpu utilization.  
> 
> If I execute this line in console:
> VALUE=`/usr/bin/ssh -l $USER $HOSTADDR vmstat 3 2 | awk 'NR > 3'`  
> 
> then i echo $VALUE, I am able to see vmstat results. Of course $USER and 
> $HOSTADDR is set with the user and ip address of the remote ssh server.  
> 
> But my script below doesn't work. I get an empty $VALUE.  
> 
> I have already done this inside my script:
> echo HOST=$1 TIME=$2 WARN=$3 CRIT=$4 USER=$5 HOSTADDR=$6 >> /tmp/debug.log  
> 
> then I do a tail -f /tmp/debug.log and YES, all the variables are 
> populated properly.  
> 
> Any ideas?  
> 
> One more, there is no way I can install nagios-statd :(  
> 
> Thanks in advance.  
> 
> 
> ---------------------code-starts-here--------------
> #!/bin/sh  
> 
> #Read arguments from the command-line
> HOST=$1
> TIME=$2
> WARN=$3
> CRIT=$4
> USER=$5
> HOSTADDR=$6  
> 
> RETVAL=0
> RETSTR=""  
> 
> ERR=0  
> 
>             VALUE=`/usr/bin/ssh -l $USER $HOSTADDR vmstat 3 2 | awk 'NR > 
> 3'`
>               RESULT=$?
>               RETSTR="vmstat 3sec interval results: $VALUE"
>               echo $RETSTR >> /tmp/datalog  
> 
>               toRRDdbuser=`echo $VALUE|awk '{print $20}'`
>               toRRDdbsystem=`echo $VALUE|awk '{print $21}'`
>               toRRDdbidle=`echo $VALUE|awk '{print $22}'`
>               CPU_idle=`echo $VALUE|awk '{print $22}'`  
> 
>               if [ $RESULT -gt 0 ]; then
>                       RETVAL=3
>                       RETSTR="Socket Error"
>                       ERR=1
>                       break
>               fi
>               if [ $CPU_idle -le $CRIT ]; then
>                       RETVAL=2
>               elif [ $CPU_idle -le $WARN ] && [ $RETVAL != 2 ]; then
>                       RETVAL=1
>               fi  
> 
> /usr/local/bin/rrdtool update 
> /usr/local/nagios/rrd/unixsystem_on_$HOST.rrd 
> $TIME:$toRRDdbuser:$toRRDdbsystem:$toRRDdbidle  
> 
> echo $RETSTR
> exit $RETVAL  
> 
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