<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <tt>This quite simply means that when the program excuted</tt> <tt>an error occured which Nagios could not interpret,</tt> <tt>hence its "out of bounds" message.</tt> <tt>Nagios is looking for return codes of 0,1,2,(3)</tt> <tt>(not sure of the three but there is a third return code associated with</tt> <tt>unknown errors)</tt> <tt>So when it receives a return code other than the 4 above</tt> <tt>it displays an error of "return code ## is out of bounds."and</tt> <tt>goes into an "other than ok" state.</tt> <tt>this is a good indication something is happening behind the</tt> <tt>scenes. The best way to determine the actual error is to execute the</tt> <tt>plugin with the same switches as in your service check with the</tt> <tt>same user that you excute the Nagios daemon with.</tt> <tt>This should spit out additional information that was not</tt> <tt>displayed when the service check ran inside of Nagios.</tt><tt></tt> <tt>Again the above error is the programs way of interpreting</tt> <tt>errors that fall outside of the realm it is accustomed to seeing.</tt> I hope this helps.. Kenneth Ray nagios-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Message: 1 From: "Kaplan, Andrew H." <AHKAPLAN@PARTNERS.ORG> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:30:35 -0400 Subject: [Nagios-users] Return code of 99 is out of bounds What is the cause for a RETURN CODE OF 99 IS OUT OF BOUNDS ERROR? It is showing up while checking the http daemon on the remote host. --__--__-- </blockquote> <pre>-- this message and any attachments are confidential to the ordinary user of the e-mail address to which it was addressed and may also be privilaged. If you receive this message in error please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose,distribute, print or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended resipient. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, arrive late or contain viruses or unauthorized amendments. The sender, therfore, does not accept liability for any errors or ommission in the content of this message or any damage or other consequences arising as a result of Internet Transmition. Opinions, conclusions and/or other information in this transmitted messxage that do not relate to official business of CITIGROUP shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by CitiGroup.</pre> </html>