Status Information Field
Jason Marshall
jasonm at kelman.com
Wed Sep 11 00:17:26 CEST 2002
> #define MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH 352 /* max. length of
> plugin
> output */
>
> you could try upping that a bit, but it will probably introduce all sorts of
> nasty security holes.
You don't want to do this in Linux. I do it in my Solaris nagios
installation because it's safe to bump it up.
The reason for the limit is there is a 512-byte limit in atomic operations
on names pipes in Linux. In other words, 512 bytes is the most you can
read or write from or to a pipe with a GUARANTEE that the data will not be
interleaved with other reads/writes. This is critical when passing as much
information, and as often as Nagios does.
Solaris has a similar limit, but it's 5120-bytes.
I can fit this nice long status into my plugin output, for instance (see
attachment (sorry for the binary post -- it's tiny)...
>
> Ewan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeffcoat, Al [mailto:ajeffco at orhs.org]
> > Sent: 10 September 2002 15:29
> > To: rpatl at gmx.at; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Status Information Field
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having the same problem with the check_disk plug-in. It's
> > truncating the data.
> >
> > No idea how to fix it, but just to say, you aren't alone ;)
> >
> > Al
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpatl at gmx.at [mailto:rpatl at gmx.at]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:15 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Status Information Field
> >
> > Hi !!
> > It's me again !!
> > I've a problem with the status.cgi and the extinfo.cgi:
> > If the status information is too long, it is cut off. For instance, I
> > monitor a switch with 24 ports and the plugin check_ifstatus
> > returns the
> > state of
> > every port (down, up and dormant).
> > Is the buffer too small or the table field ??
> >
> > I hope you can help me !!
> > Thanks in advance !!
> > Patrick
> >
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Jason Marshall, Unix Geek, Kelman Technologies, Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada.
From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
"Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."
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