Hello. I was working on making nagiosgraph/rrdtool work with my Nagios 2.0 installation when I came upon this issue.
I have the following in nagios.cfg: process_performance_data=1 service_perfdata_file=/var/spool/nagios/perfdata.log service_perfdata_file_template=[SERVICEPERFDATA]\t$TIME$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$SERVICEEXECUTIONTIME$\t$SERVICELATENCY$\t$SERVICEOUTPUT$\t$SERVICEPERFDATA$ service_perfdata_file_processing_command=process-service-perfdata In checkcommands.cfg I initially tried the default of: define command { command_name process-service-perfdata command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$LASTSERVICECHECK$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$SERVICESTATE$\t$SERVICEATTEMPT$\t$SERVICESTATETYPE$\t$SERVICEEXECUTIONTIME$\t$SERVICELATENCY$\t$SERVICEOUTPUT$\t$SERVICEPERFDATA$\n" >> /usr/local/nagios/var/service-perfdata.out } I found that I saw output that I expected in /var/spool/nagios/perfdata.log (i.e. real hostname, servicename, stuff, etc), but the target file of the process-service-perfdata command yielded nothing but emtpy lines. I tried replacing the printf with simple echo's of individual macros and got nothing. I changed the command line to a shell script that did nothing but echo it's shell environment to a file and any arguments passed on the command line. The shell environment showed up in the file but the only things that showed up from the shell script's command line were non-macros. For example, I had command_line /usr/local/nagios/etc/M.sh FOO $HOSTNAME$ and I'd see "FOO" in the output file. The shell script had an "env >> /tmp/output" line in it so I could see the shell environment. There were lots of nagios env variables there, but most were empty including things like $NAGIOS_SERVICEDESC. Clearly the macros are being expanded elsewhere (host/service checking commands, and writing directly to the perfdata file), but I can't get them to be available at all with my perfdata processing command. What am I doing wrong? I've recently fired up Nagios 2.1 and run with the same configuration and it made no difference. Thanks Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ 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