Status display errors

[Marc Powell]

Since you haven't yet received a response...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Aaron Carr
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:03 AM
> To: Nagios User List
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Status display errors
> 
> I'm having some strange problems with the Nagios web page output.
> 
> I have multiple services that randomly (and often) change the status
> COLOR (only the color mind you, not the actual status) to the orange
> "Unknown" status.  The data returned by the plugins is all showing
> "OK" status however.
> 
> It's extremely annoying, because it makes a quick glance at the status
> page totally useless.
> 
> I'm running Nagios 2.0b4 on a Linux server, and my current test client
> is Solaris 9 using various versions of the plugins (from 1.3 - 1.4.1)
> via check_by_ssh.
> 
> I've attached a screenshot of what I'm seeing if that helps.
> 
> Anyone have any answers for this?

This is clearly not normal. The status/color is determined exclusively
by the exit code of the plugin, not the human readable output. It seems
that that code isn't being correctly sent, either by the plugin you're
running on the remote host or by check_by_ssh (which should just pass on
the plugin's exit code). I would try repeatedly running the check
command from your nagios machine exactly as it's defined as the nagios
user to see if there is some intermittent error condition. After each
run, check the exit code with 'echo $?' to see if it matches the
expected exit code for the check. If all looks good there, try the same
thing on the remote host.

http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#AEN75

--
Marc


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