Nagios script output issue

newme me allanm78 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 19:47:57 CEST 2010


Hi Marc,

Thanks for your reply, I checked on the multiple process of Nagios but there
is only one running.

Any other thing you can think of which might be causing this odd behaviour?

Thanks,
Allan.

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:12 PM, newme me <allanm78 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I switched to "check_http" plugin (official nagios plugin) but that also
> has same problem.
>
> Initially when I start nagios then the status on the Nagios Web interface
> is same as the one returned from commandline.
>
> After some time the status becomes critical but is not as same as the
> commandline. Command line returns the correct status of OK instead of what
> the Nagios web interface shows as "CRITICAL"
>
> Result from commandline(& browser) -
> ./check_http -H xyz.com -p 2222 -u /abc -t 3
> OK
>
> Result from Nagios Interface -
> nodename nor servname provided, or not known
> HTTP CRITICAL - Unable to open TCP socket
>
> I am thinking that this has something to do with Nagios as the box is
> behaving just fine based on the commandline result(and verified on the URL
> through the browser).
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks,
> Allan.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:26 PM, newme me <allanm78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Nagios is acting a little weird for me, I have this external script which
>> I hooked into Nagios, it merely does a curl/wget on a URL and returns the
>> status based on string in the content/output. Initially for 2-3 hrs the
>> script returns the right status and Nagios reports correctly i.e. OK, WARN,
>> ERROR based on the exit from the script. After 2-3 hrs output which was (and
>> should be) OK or WARN starts returning CRITICAL and the output line says
>> "Application is" and not even "Application is ERROR" or "Application is
>> FATAL".
>>
>> There is nothing in the logs to suggest what could be the problem. Have
>> you experienced this before and let me know the corrective action. I am
>> running Nagios on Mac OSX.
>>
>> Here is the script for the curious -
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> read URL < "$1"
>>
>> STATUS=`curl -s $URL |grep summary|awk -F\" '{print $2}'`
>> echo "Application is $STATUS"
>> echo "curl $URL"
>>
>> case $STATUS in
>> OK)
>>    exit 0
>>    ;;
>> WARN)
>>   exit 1
>>   ;;
>> ERROR)
>>   exit 2
>>   ;;
>> FATAL)
>>   exit 2
>>   ;;
>> *)
>>   exit 2
>>   ;;
>> esac
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Allan.
>
>
>
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