check_procs: Unknown argument - (null)

Tedman Eng teng at dataway.com
Tue Oct 18 20:25:13 CEST 2005


I see your check_local_procs has provided only 2 arguments (250,400)
but your check command definition is expecting 3 arguments (-w, -c, -s)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Henry [mailto:ghenry at suretecsystems.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 4:51 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] check_procs: Unknown argument - (null)
> 
> 
> <quote who="Tedman Eng">
> >> From: Gavin Henry [mailto:ghenry at suretecsystems.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:05 PM
> >> I can't figure out why I am getting this error:
> >>
> >> check_procs: Unknown argument - (null)
> >>
> >>     320 define service{
> >>     321         use                             generic-service
> >>     322         host_name                       localhost
> >>     323         service_description             Total Processes
> >>     324         is_volatile                     0
> >>     325         check_period                    24x7
> >>     326         max_check_attempts              4
> >>     327         normal_check_interval           5
> >>     328         retry_check_interval            1
> >>     329         contact_groups                  admins
> >>     330         notification_interval           960
> >>     331         notification_period             24x7
> >>     332         check_command
> >> check_local_procs!250!400
> >>     333         }
> >>
> >> Aren't I giving it parameters here              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>
> >
> >
> > Yes, those are parameters.  (about as informative as your 
> question was)
> 
> Sorry. I thought I had covered everything, obviously not.
> 
> >
> >
> > Provide some context please.
> >
> > Wheere are you seeing this "Unknown argument error"?
> 
> In the nagios.log and via the web interface.
> 
> > What does the pre-flight check say?
> 
> nagios -v ??
> 
> -----------------------
> Nagios 2.0b4
> Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 08-02-2005
> License: GPL
> 
> Reading configuration data...
> 
> Running pre-flight check on configuration data...
> 
> Warning: Size of service_message struct (528 bytes) is > 
> POSIX-guaranteed
> atomic  write size (512 bytes).  Service checks results may 
> get lost or
> mangled!
> Checking services...
>         Checked 6 services.
> Checking hosts...
>         Checked 1 hosts.
> Checking host groups...
>         Checked 1 host groups.
> Checking service groups...
>         Checked 0 service groups.
> Checking contacts...
>         Checked 1 contacts.
> Checking contact groups...
>         Checked 1 contact groups.
> Checking service escalations...
>         Checked 0 service escalations.
> Checking service dependencies...
>         Checked 0 service dependencies.
> Checking host escalations...
>         Checked 0 host escalations.
> Checking host dependencies...
>         Checked 0 host dependencies.
> Checking commands...
>         Checked 22 commands.
> Checking time periods...
>         Checked 1 time periods.
> Checking extended host info definitions...
>         Checked 0 extended host info definitions.
> Checking extended service info definitions...
>         Checked 0 extended service info definitions.
> Checking for circular paths between hosts...
> Checking for circular host and service dependencies...
> Checking global event handlers...
> Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
> Checking misc settings...
> 
> Total Warnings: 1
> Total Errors:   0
> 
> Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during 
> the pre-flight
> check
> -----------------------
> 
> > What is in your checkcommands.cfg section for check_local_procs?
> >
> 
> define command{
>      command_name   check_local_procs
>      command_line   $USER1$/check_procs -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -s $ARG3$
> }
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kind Regards,
> Gavin Henry.
> 
> Open Source. Open Solutions(tm).
> 
> http://www.suretecsystems.com/
> 
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