Problem using snpp.pl for notifications

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Sun Aug 28 23:13:04 CEST 2005


On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Dave Augustus wrote:

> I woke up this morning to find that one of my servers died. However, I
> didn't receive any notifications on my alpha pager.
>
> Checking /var/log/messages has numerous entries like the following:
>
> Aug 28 10:14:56 monitor nagios: **ePN failed to compile /usr/bin/snpp:
> "Global symbol "$cmd" requires explicit package name at (eval 6) li
> ne 156, Global symbol "$arg" requires explicit package name at (eval 6)
> line 163. Global symbol "$cmd" requires explicit package name at (
> eval 6) line 165. Global symbol "$arg" requires expl" at /usr/bin/p1.pl
> line 153
>
> I use snpp.pl for alpha notifications. Here is my misc_command for
> snpp:
>
> define  command {
>    command_name    host-notify-by-tap
>    command_line    /usr/bin/snpp -d -n -m "Service: $SERVICEDESC$ Host:
> $HOSTALIAS$ Address: $HOSTADDRESS$ State: $SERVICESTATE$ Info: $OUTPUT$
> Date: $DATETIME$"  $CONTACTPAGER$
>    }
>
> Running the following on Centos4:
> nagios-nrpe-2.0-3.2
> nagios-2.0-0.b4.1
> nagios-plugins-1.4.1-1.2
> nagios-plugins-nrpe-2.0-3.2
>
> If I run snpp from the command line, it works fine. Is there a parameter
> that I need to pass for it to invoke snpp properly?
>


in the nagios tarball is a program call mini_epn.c - it mimics Nagios' 
embeded Perl interpreter.

You might want to try running snpp.pl thru that to see if it is ePN safe.

-- 
-sg


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