No output from check_snmp_cisco_memutil

Timothy O'Hare tim at infostream.com.au
Mon Nov 28 23:38:06 CET 2005


Hi Max,
Have you tried running it as the Nagios user i.e. with the same 
privileges as Nagios?
cheers, Tim

Max wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone using the check_snmp_cisco_memutil script? I got this off of 
> NagiosExchange and haven't been successful at getting it to function 
> properly. I'm running Nagios 1.2 and I have the appropriate Net::SNMP 
> and other Perl packages installed, because I'm doing a ton of other 
> checks across SNMP. I can run the command from the command line 
> successfully such as:
> 
> ./check_snmp_cisco_memutil -H myhost -C mycommunity -w 60 -c 65
> Status is OK - MEMORY: total: 67.11 MB, used: 27.50 MB (41%), free: 
> 39.61 MB
> 
> I have defined a command in my checkcommands.cfg as:
> 
> 
> define command{
>         command_name    snmp_mem
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_snmp_cisco_memutil -H 
> $HOSTADDRESS$ -C mycommunity -w 60 -c 65
>         }
> 
> Also, I've defined the service in services.cfg:
> 
> define service{
>         use                             basic-service
>         name                            snmp-mem
>         service_description             MEM
>         check_command                   snmp_mem
>         host_name            myhost
>         }
> 
> Basically, the service MEM I have defined shows up under the host 
> specified, but the plugin fails saying there is no output. I've 
> configured quite a few services in the instance of Nagios I have up and 
> running, so I'm fairly sure it's not my config.
> 
> I've checked the logs that I know about and there is nothing other than 
> "No output!" Has anyone else had a similar experience? I'm not a Perl 
> programmer so perhaps this script is messed up, but I figured if that 
> were the case though, it wouldn't function from the command line either.
> 
> About as far as I've gone with changing the script was to make sure that 
> it was actually returning the exit status's that Nagios uses to 
> determine if something is Ok, Warning, or Critical. It seems to be 
> returning those values correctly. Any suggestions? Thanks!
> 
> Max
> 
> 
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