check_procs: Unknown argument - (null)

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Tue Oct 18 21:26:09 CEST 2005


<quote who="Tedman Eng">
> 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)
>

Ah, missed that. Sorry. It was the default, I never changed it. Time to
raise a bug report with the DAG RPMS.

Cheers.

>
>> -----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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