Weirdness with remote (passive) checks. Critical on remote, OK on local?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Brian Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 4:27 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Weirdness with remote (passive) checks.
> Critical on remote, OK on local?
> 
> Thanks for all the help everyone, we've (finally!) resolved the issue.
> Here's what was going on:


> At home base, because they were strings not numbers, nagios was
quietly
> interpreting the OK and the Critical both as zero.
> 
> 
> This was happening because the script submit_check_result_via_nsca was
> set to append the text status rather than numeric status, or maybe
> because a script to translate that text status was not being run.  In
> the submit_check_result_via_nsca script:
> 
>      #  $3 = return_code (An integer that determines the state
>      #       of the service check, 0=OK, 1=WARNING, 2=CRITICAL,
>      #       3=UNKNOWN).
> 
>      [ define echocmd and other vars ]
> 
>      $echocmd "$1\t$2\t$3\t$4\n" | $NscaBin $NagiosHost -c $NscaCfg
> 
> 
> ... but $3 was actually the text, not the return code. Apparently
you're
> supposed to run the script "obsessive_svc_handler" not
> "submit_check_result_via_nsca", because obsessive_svc_handler has the
> code to translate the string into a number.

See the example submit_check_result from
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/distributed.html. I'm not sure
what script 'obsessive_svc_handler' is. I haven't seen that one before.
How did you install nagios? If it's a package the maintainer might like
to know about that confusion.

--
Marc


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