Debugging nagios checks?

[Michael T. Halligan]

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Eli,

Yes, yes, and yes.  From here, I'm somewhat out of good paths for  
debugging this.  What I can't understand, is I don't even see script  
processes actually running if I keep a constant ps going.. does
Nagios-2 no longer run scripts in a visible manner?

Michaeel


On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Eli Stair wrote:

>
> Have you already tested the plugin from the commandline, passing it  
> the args that are sent from Nagios to make sure your version/ 
> community string and mountpoint info are properly read and returned?
>
> Have you checked to make sure that SNMP is monitoring disk usage?
>
> /eli
>
> Michael T. Halligan wrote:
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>> I'm trying to use check_snmp_storage.pl from http:// 
>> www.manubulon.com/ nagios/snmp_storage.html and am having a bit of  
>> a hard time.
>> Nagios simply fails when trying to check, with the extremely  
>> helpful  error of "(No output!)" .. Nothing useful gets generated  
>> in any of
>> the logs (and I have every log option turned on).. When I strace   
>> nagios, there's still not much useful.
>> How can I make nagios show me what it's running when it runs a  
>> check,  and show me the output, so I can debug this issue? I think
>> I'm running into a problem with snmp on my client boxes, but I  
>> have  no idea.
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