I don't receive a changing state

[Jon Angliss]

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On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:43:51 +0200, Jean Frontin <frontin at irit.fr>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I run nagios 2.9 on the server host A. With the command :
>
>command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_xxx
>
>I look at if processes are running on the host B with the command in 
>"nrpe.cfg" :
>
>command[check_xxx]=/etc/nagios/check_xxx
>
>where check_xxx is a "ps -ef"...

Is that all it does?  What's the exist status of 'ps -ef' when nothing
is returned?

>When processes are running I receive on A "processes are running".
>But when processes are down I receive :
>
>CHECK_NRPE: No output received from daemon
>
>the command on B "ps -ef ..." writes nothing !
>
>I should receive, on server nagios A, an alert "critical state" ! and, 
>of course, a "recovery" when processes are running again !

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

Without more details on what else is in check_xxx, I can only assume
'ps -ef' is returning 0 every time, and hence not throwing a
warning/error when nothing is listed.

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Jon Angliss

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