Occasionally "Return code of 127 for check of host/service was out of bounds. Make sure the plugin you're trying to run actually exists."

[Marc Powell]

On Aug 28, 2009, at 12:52 AM, Morten Guldager wrote:

> Warning: Return code of 127 for check of host 'myhost' was out of  
> bounds. Make sure the plugin you're trying to run actually exists.
> Warning: Return code of 127 for check of service 'myservice' on host  
> 'myhost' was out of bounds. Make sure the plugin you're trying to  
> run actually exists.
>
> I tracked it down to calls to the plugins were bloated with a huge  
> set of environment variables, every plugin call where served  
> something that looked like a big chunk of sibling hosts or services  
> from the same hostgroup/servicegroup.
>
> The fix were easy, flip the config variable  
> "enable_environment_macros" in nagios.cfg from 1 to 0.

Interesting... Good catch. Thanks for sharing.

--
Marc


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