Any ideas how I could debug a check that works when using capture_plugin.pl, but never gets scheduled or run otherwise?
Thanks, Mike Mike Chesnut wrote: > I have a check that never runs. The services I've defined that use it > sit at the top of the scheduling queue, with their next check always > within a few minutes of the last time I restarted nagios. This remains > the case even if I reschedule their next check time in the web interface > (while I see a line in the log file confirming that I rescheduled it, > the "next check" does not update and the check is never run). > > The check is defined like this: > > command_line /etc/nagios/plugins/check_snmp_byportname.pl --host > $HOSTADDRESS$ --community mycommunity --port $ARG1$ > > What's really weird is that if I change it to use Wolfgang Wagner's > capture_plugin.pl*, then everything works as expected. I change the > above to this: > > command_line /etc/nagios/plugins/capture_plugin.pl > /etc/nagios/plugins/check_snmp_byportname.pl --host $HOSTADDRESS$ > --community mycommunity --port $ARG1$ > > and then I am able to see the output in /tmp/camptured-plugins.log, the > status updates in nagios, these checks get cycled through the scheduler > queue normally, and everything is as it should be. > > check_snmp_byportname.pl is a script I've written that's essentially > just a wrapper around the stock check_snmp. It works on its own (from > the command line) as expected, and works when called with > capture_plugin.pl as a wrapper. > > If I then remove the capture_plugin.pl part of that command definition > and restart (and this is the *only* change I'm making), then this > particular check goes back to not working (while everything else > continues to work as normal). > > This is on Nagios 2.9 (I'm using the rpm provided by Dag Wieers, on > CentOS 5.2). > > What else can I do to debug this? I thought that using capture_plugin > would show me what was wrong with this check, but instead it just showed > me that nothing is wrong, apparently. I'm kind of confused at this point. > > Sorry this is so long. I wanted to try to include as much information > and observations as possible. > > Thanks in advance for the help, > Mike > > * - from here: http://www.waggy.at/nagios/capture_plugin.htm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
