<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:p="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:powerpoint" xmlns:a="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:access" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" xmlns:b="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:publisher" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:c="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:component:spreadsheet" xmlns:odc="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:odc" xmlns:oa="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:activation" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:q="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:rtc="http://microsoft.com/officenet/conferencing" xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:Repl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/repl/" xmlns:mt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/" xmlns:x2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2003/xml" xmlns:ppda="http://www.passport.com/NameSpace.xsd" xmlns:ois="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/ois/" xmlns:dir="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:dsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" xmlns:udc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:sub="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/2002/1/alerts/" xmlns:ec="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#" xmlns:sp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" xmlns:sps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:udcs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/soap" xmlns:udcxf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile" xmlns:udcp2p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/parttopart" xmlns:wf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/workflow/" xmlns:dsss="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig-setup" xmlns:dssi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig" xmlns:mdssi="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/digital-signature" xmlns:mver="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:mrels="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships" xmlns:spwp="http://microsoft.com/sharepoint/webpartpages" xmlns:ex12t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:ex12m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:pptsl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/SlideLibrary/" xmlns:spsl="http://microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/PublishedLinksService" xmlns:Z="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" xmlns:st="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hi all:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Got a Nagios 3.2.3 server running on RHEL 5.5.<o:p></o:p> Installed plugins include pnp4nagios 0.6.13 & rrdtools 1.4.5<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I made some custom scripts that include the use of sar. A snippet;<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> WAITIO=`sar -u 1 3 | grep Average | awk '{print $4}'`<o:p></o:p> CRIT=50<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> echo "%waitio = $WAITIO | /=$WAITIO%;;$CRIT;0;100\r"<o:p></o:p> exit 0<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> When executing this script via nrpe to a Linux client, all is OK. When the same check is performed against HPUX 11v2 or HPUX 11v3, <o:p></o:p> there is garbage in the output and it gets placed into the XML file in the <NAGIOS_LONGSERVICEOUTPUT>, this results in the parsing error<o:p></o:p> when trying to display the graph. Edit the XML file and take out the garbage then the graph displays fine, until next update.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Here is the output after piped to cat –etv. <o:p></o:p> [nagios@nagserver ~]$ check_nrpe -H hostname -c 'check_HPwait' | cat -etv<o:p></o:p> %waitio = 2 | /=2%;;50;0;100^M$<o:p></o:p> $<o:p></o:p> M-(wM-}M-3M-^XwM-}M-3M-^X@^AM-_M-l@$<o:p></o:p> [nagios@nagserver ~]$<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Anybody know where that garbage is coming from on HPUX? Anybody know how to fix it? <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Many thanks<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <HR>The information contained in this transmission may be confidential. Any disclosure, copying, or further distribution of confidential information is not permitted unless such privilege is explicitly granted in writing by Quantum. 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