check_mrtg always returns unknown (#3)?

[Scott Baker]

Nope I have not heard back. I'm assuming it's just a bug in the
plugin. I don't know C so I can't fix it. I did write my own
check_mrtg plugin in Perl if you're interested in that. That's
ultimately what I ended up doing.

Scott

Fernando Lima wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> Had anyone replied your e-mail!? I had a simillar issue, and would be great
> to get these informations...
> 
> Cheers,
> Fernando Lima
> Schlumberger
> Security Engineer
> flima at slb.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Scott Baker
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:11 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_mrtg always returns unknown (#3)?
> 
> 
> I'm trying to make sure that my MRTG program is running, and updating data.
> I think I want to use the check_mrtg function to do that. I'm *only*
> interested in whether the MRTG is running. Here's the syntax I'm using.
> 
> ./check_mrtg -F /path/cpu.log -a MAX -v 1 -w 100 -c 200 -e 10 -l "CPU Usage"
> -u %
> 
> Output: Max. CPU Usage = 42 %|'CPU Usage'=42%;100;200;
> 
> I'm monitoring CPU usage on our router. If it goes above 100% page me.
> Again, I don't care about the CPU usage, I only want to know about that -e
> 10 (if the MRTG data is more than 10 minutes old). When I run the above
> command it always exits with a 3 which is Unknown in Nagios.
> 
> It reads the data from MRTG just fine, it's just that no matter WHAT I do,
> or what syntax I try it always exits 3 unknown. Is my syntax wrong on that
> check?
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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