check_cpu: "no output returned from plugin"

[Jason Martin]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:42:13AM +1000, Guy Waugh wrote:
> It works fine from the command line (as the nagios user), but due to the 
> fact that it runs vmstat with 2 readings 5 seconds apart, the plugin 
> takes a little over 5 seconds to run. Could this be why nagios thinks 
> the plugin is returning no output? Is there a setting that tells nagios 
> to wait a certain amount of time for a plugin to return output? Or 
> perhaps my assumption is wrong...
The default check timeout is 10 seconds, so that shouldn't be
your problem. Anyway, if it times out then it will report a
timeout.

No Output From plugin means that the plugin had no output. That
could indicate a plugin error, so perhaps the plugin is having a
problem execeuting vmstat.

-Jason Martin
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