Retrun code of 99 is out of bounds

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Andrew, I'm puzzling over your approach.  It could well be that your
requirements have dictated this approach, but I thought I'd voice my
thoughts, just in case.
 
It appears that you're trying to do this status check:
 
Nagios_host -> hostA -> httpd_on_hostB
 
If you have a firewall which is causing you to use this approach, I'd
understand.  But even using Fredrik Wänglund's approach, I still have to
wonder what value $HOSTADDRESS$ will have.  If it ends up having the value
of the IP address of the host which is executing it (ie, hostA), that's one
approach.  If your intent was to have it poke at hostB, I'm not sure where
it will acquire that IP address value.
 
If all you're trying to do is check the status of the webserver on hostA,
and there are no firewalls to contend with, I would suggest that you not
bother with NRPE (for this check).  You're making it unnecessarily
complicated.
 
Instead, do something like this (from my configs, so I apologize for the
terseness).  From services.cfg:
 
define service{
        name                            http
        use                             icmp
        service_description             HTTP
        notification_options            w,u,c,r
        check_command                   check_http!80
        register                        0
        }

Also from services.cfg:
 
define service{
        host_name                       host1
        use                             http
        contact_groups                  linux-admins
        }
 
And from checkcommands.cfg:
 
define command{
        command_name    check_http
        command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$
        }

With this approach, my Nagios host will attempt a direct connection to port
80 on host1.  (It does more than that; do a "check_http --help" for
details.)
 
Hope this helps.
 
jc
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Kaplan, Andrew H. [mailto:AHKAPLAN at PARTNERS.ORG]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:35 AM
To: 'Kenneth.ray'
Cc: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Re: Retrun code of 99 is out of bounds


Hi Ken,
 
I did a check of the command and the feedback I got indicated the check_http
command was not defined. I went to the remote host's nrpe.cfg file and I
checked the syntax 
of the check_http command. Here's what it reads:
 
    command[check_http]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/$USER1$/check_http -H
$HOSTADDRESS$
 
Should the above line have the $USER1$ setting changed to the actual user
running the daemon, and similarly should $HOSTADDRESS$ be the actual address
of the remote host?

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth.ray [mailto:kenneth.ray at travelersla.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:33 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: Retrun code of 99 is out of bounds


This quite simply means that when the program excuted 
an error occured which Nagios could not interpret, 
hence its "out of bounds" message. 
Nagios is looking for return codes of 0,1,2,(3) 
(not sure of the three but there is a third return code associated with 
unknown errors) 
So when it receives a return code other than the 4 above 
it displays an error of "return code ## is out of bounds."and 
goes into an "other than ok" state. 
this is a good indication something is happening behind the 
scenes. The best way to determine the actual  error is to execute the 
plugin with the same switches as in your service check with the 
same user that you excute the Nagios daemon with. 
This should spit out additional information that was not 
displayed when the service check ran inside of Nagios. 

Again the above error is the programs way of interpreting 
errors that fall outside of the realm it is accustomed to seeing. 
  


I hope this helps.. 
Kenneth Ray 


nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote: 


Message: 1 
From: "Kaplan, Andrew H." <AHKAPLAN at PARTNERS.ORG> 
To: nagios-users at 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. 


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