Problem using snpp.pl for notifications

[Russell Adams]

What if you avoid embedded perl?

Russell

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:42:37PM -0500, Dave Augustus wrote:
> OK I tried your idea. Here is the response I got:
> 
> Enter file name: /usr/bin/snpp -m test davea
> embedded perl plugin return code and output was: 3 &
> '**ePN /usr/bin/snpp: "Can't use string ("") as a subroutine ref
> while"strict refs" in use at p1.pl line 260,".
> 
> At this point, I appears that Sendpage will NOT work with Nagios
> 2.0 .... sigh....
> 
> So I can use quickpage at this point although sendpage looks more
> mature.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:13 -0400, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> -- 
> Dave Augustus <davea at support.kcm.org>
> 
> 
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